Word: platformate
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Platform calls for "speak-withs," Harvard discussion groups with national Republican leaders, for expanding the circulation of the Republican Review to include colleges throughout the country, and for issuing periodic YR policy statements to national Republican figures as well as to Harvard Republicans...
...addition to broadening the perspective of the Young Republicans--he wants to change the official title to the Harvard Republican Club -- Vaupel proposes an increase in the program to assist Massachusetts state legislators. His platform also calls for "tightening up" the club through better administration and for full support of a Political Union with the YD's under the auspices of the Kennedy Institute...
...slippage among youth groups (off 60%) and in the factories has been even more drastic. Seeking to match the mood of the new masses, Longo suggested a nuova maggioranza (new majority) that would unite Communists, Socialists and left-wing Christian Democrats behind a platform demanding nothing more doctrinaire than better economic planning and fewer monopolies. Over objections from some hard-lining delegates, Longo hinted that his merged party might even be willing to change its name. And he lavished praise on the Vatican Ecumenical Council. "We have observed," he conceded graciously, "a certain development beyond those conservative positions which made...
Such an episode illustrates Congressional tendencies to assert independence from the Executive at the expense of urgent social needs. A four-year term for House members, by binding them somewhat more closely to their party's presidential candidate and platform, will make Congressmen more responsive to the national problems of the remaining third of the twentieth century. And it will allow them to work more efficiently and thoroughly at the task of solving them...
Joel Oppenheimer's play was written, certainly, with good intentions. Centering around three cowboy desperadoes crossing the Western plains, it seeks to bitterly expose the great American romance for what it was. Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, and Wild Bill Hickock sit on a raised platform (that's heaven, pardner) and from time to time offer "commercials" on "The Sixgun That Won The West," "The Indians of the Americas--A Veritable Tower of Babel," and such. The format is funny and the commercials (and their delivery) are for the most part very funny. Near...