Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Resigning as Navy Secretary in 1962 to run for a two-year term as Governor, Connally won, mainly on a pitch for better education so that Texas could continue shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy. "People told me only the well-to-do cared about education. Well, that's wrong. My father cared about his children's education. The laborer cares. The tenant farmer cares. The city man cares. The average man can't send his son to Yale. But he knows his son needs a good education...
Before his death, President Kennedy had held several political strategy sessions, made it clear that he meant to base his 1964 campaign on a peace-and-prosperity pitch. Now Kennedy's successor intends to do the same thing-but with his own L.B.J. brand. That much was evident as he returned to Washington this week to deliver his first State of the Union address...
...after the President's assassination, denunciations of him became a very poor political pitch. Most of Mor rison's opponents tried to climb back off their limbs, but it was too late. When Louisiana Democrats went to the polls Dec. 7, they gave Morrison 299,702 votes, a whopping 140,000 plurality over the runner-up, Louisiana's Public Service Commissioner John J. Mc-Keithen...
...recordings, the chef-d'oeuvre is his collection of all 32 Beethoven sonatas, here handsomely presented in a handsomely annotated edition of 13 LPs for the handsome price of $77.98. The original recordings were made between January 1932 and November 1935, and though there are occasional lapses in pitch and sound level, Schnabel's performances are a superbly lucid treatise on grace and good humor, on dedication and scholarship...
...received either as a magnificent catharsis or as an offensive, over-extended tear-jerker. The audience chose the cathartic interpretation, even though the members of the string orchestra did not end their chords together, did not play their pizzicati together, and did not all tune to the standard of pitch habitual in civilized countries...