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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...follow in this conservative state is to elect a Republican governor. With the conservative party power structure out of power, there might be a chance for the factionalized liberal chronic minority to take over the party in primary elections. Blacks and browns have excercised little voting power in the past, though in a new coalition with the white liberals here is hope that this can be changed by registration drives and progressive local candidates. This group, the Texas Democratic Coalition, primarily McCarthyite, is setting up a parallel party structure across the state. Other liberals are actively working...
With Gov. Phillip A. Hoff, a McCarthy supporter, at the head of the party and the only significant Democratic office-holder in the past few years, liberals have played an important part in the decision-making. The 7000-member McCarthy organization--with a heavy dose of academicians--will probably go for a Democratic Coalition like the CDC after the election. Affluent McCarthyites have increased their control by giving generously this fall to moderate party candidates. If Hoff runs for the U.S. Senate in 1970, the liberal Coalition will most likely provide his base of support...
...close to winning in 1968 has left a liberal militancy unknown to this state before. The party organization tried to put down the McCarthyites and used some heavy handed tactics while doing it. Instead of retreating back to their apathy or into the insignificant minority they were in the past, most Montana liberals believe it's time to change, and are mad enough in many cases to do the dull party work necessary to pull...
...occasion, Charley, in adolescent bravado, adds "the suicide caper to his repertoire of small talk, using it to fascinate women." Alas, it only bores them. As a companion piece to Factory, the story sharply emphasizes Sheed's overall theme: the harmful consequences of clutching at visions of the past, whether they are mythical but life-sustaining visions like Jimmy's or real but death-dealing ones like Charley...
...labyrinthine exploration of Wolf's hang-ups. To the useful tale of his youth, Stern ties a string of current circumstances, including a preposterously pregnant ex-wife and a mad film director whose sole purpose is to prove that God, man and Wolf are all prisoners of their past...