Word: podium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DESPITE the alarm caused by the Wallace shooting, McGovern still seems comfortable in the huge crowds that come to see and hear him. He wades into the throngs, smiling confidently, patting a shoulder, pausing now and then for a "Hi, how are you?" On the podium, however, the smile is replaced by a seriousness that transforms him into a political preacher of fire and brimstone crusading for a righteous cause. Like an Old Testament prophet, McGovern talks of good and evil, light and darkness; his tough speeches are sprinkled with biblical quotations. He always gets loud applause from the audiences...
Tall, tanned and toothy he moves through the poor farm and hill towns of West Virginia like some cultured country slicker. Striding into one tiny town hall he purposely bypasses the speaker's podium, hikes one shiny size-12 shoe onto a folding chair, unbuttons his navy blue cashmere blazer, loosens his wide striped tie and says with a slight twang: "They say, 'Now you know Jay. He's a carpetbagger. He came down here to use this state.' " He flashes the neon smile. "Now I criticized my parents because they didn't allow...
...lively monthly devoted to the liberal wing of the Democratic Party. Editor Stephen Schlesinger, 29, admits to no clairvoyance in foreseeing Edmund Muskie's fall and the rise of George McGovern-only partisanship.* Schlesinger, the son of Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., founded the magazine in 1970 as a podium from which to preach party reform and "call attention to the dead leadership...
IRECALL vividly seeing Erich Segal for the first time on a night last December, somewhere in the bowels of Vanserg Hall. He was lecturing to some Humanities 3 students on the drama of Euripides. His style was pure enthusiasm. Eschewing the podium, hopping about like a praying mantis with a bladder problem, he leaned into our faces to make a point or answer a question, suddenly pulling back to continue his remarks. Small and thin, he did not appear especially athletic, though he runs marathons. He was a bit darker than I had expected. Black, thinning curly hair framed...
Eschewing the podium, hopping about like a praying mantis with a bladder problem, he leaned into our faces to make a point or answer a question...