Word: personal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston alone, we hope to have the baton pass through the hands of thousands of people," Boothby said. He added that one person might get to carry the baton for a couple hundred yards through a crowded urban area like Boston...
...there was palpable. All my political experience had been in the company of those who considered themselves in mortal opposition to Richard Nixon. I had taught for over ten years at Harvard University, where among the faculty disdain for Richard Nixon was established orthodoxy. And the single most influential person in my life had been a man whom Nixon had twice defeated in futile quests for the presidential nomination, Nelson Rockefeller...
...local born-again pastors, hoping to enlist support for Moral Majority. He mentions the need for political ecumenism, and bemoans the fact that several million "conservative Christians"-his label for those who more or less agree with his reading of the Bible-do not vote. "If there is one person in this room not registered," he tells the pastors, "repent of it. It's a sin." That message must be repeated in every congregation, he says. The order of the day must be: "Get them saved, baptized and registered...
Hansen was stunned by the explosion of notoriety that ensued. "I'm a very ordinary person," he said last week. "I never dreamed that my letter to Senator Percy would ever be published." In fact, publication was all but inevitable, since the letter somehow reached half a dozen papers. First the Peninsula Times Tribune (circ. 65,800) of Palo Alto, Calif...
Here, too, Wambaugh continues to me ander. He is unable to solve the problem of compressing seven dull years into a coherent, suspenseful story, possibly because he, and Actor Savage, cannot find a way to turn Hettinger into a sympathetic person, or even an articulate one. The Onion Field is a serious and most uncompromising movie. It lacks, however, the sort of disciplined craft that might have made it a powerful and affecting...