Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stage should be adaptable enough to accomodate a classical or modern play, and to present it in a manner consistent with the style in which it is written. This means a platform or "open" stage will be required as well as a proscenium stage, and that the proscenium opening should be flexible. The two units should be capable of use together or separately. Part, if not all, of the platform, should be hydraulically controlled so that several levels may be provided...
What this amusing little concept means I suppose, is that the same republicans who one convention night cheered wildly and sincerely for Barry Goldwater could the next day embrace platform and a candidate that will accomplish as little of what Goldwater really wants as will the Democrats. The embrace is indeed brief and for most observers came away from the Chicago convention with a wrong impression that Goldwater, and Eisenhower or Nixon, was the centimental hero of the Republican (I hesitate to call them...
Goldwater's case was rejected by his own party at Chicago, when it adopted a platform containing virtually none of the Arizona Senator's proposals. It did so, according to some critics, less out of conviction than from a belief that Goldwater's views were unpopular with the voters. Goldwater's Conservatism (always with a capital "C") is, after all, a rather extreme brand. It is based, pre-eminently, on the strictest possible construction of the Constitution, a concept most voters don't even understand, much less enthusiastically embrace...
...content of Bowles' hypothetical consensus, it follows the general line of Democratic platform and campaign, with the same virtues (concern for all the necessary things Goldwater would abandon) and faults (an eagerness to disguise the fact that public programs cost money and a corresponding failure to stress the fact that the country can and must afford this money). Bowles writes in amazingly short, terse paragraphs, and too often appears to be offering the reader an oversimplified first primer in American politics, history and economics...
...Howdy Doody last week left the air-going out with an hourlong, reminiscent spectacular. The final show (there will be filmed reruns) brought back such milestones in Howdy Doody's career as the 1948 election campaign, when "the President of the Kids" solidly campaigned on a platform that promised two Christmases and one school day a year, more pictures in history books, double sodas for 10?, plenty of movies and free lollipops...