Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Muskie described it, Humphrey will hit "the big spots" during the campaign and he will "fill in the other territory." Said the former Governor, a Polish Catholic who nonetheless has the craggy, crinkly features of a down-Easter: "They say that because of my ethnic background I'm supposed to do well in the cities. However, it seems to me that because of my appearance I might expect to do very well in the rural areas...
...Edmund Muskie, little-known but with other assets to commend him. A ruggedly handsome, young-looking man of 54, he imparts a Lincolnesque air of cool statesmanship in counterpoint to Humphrey's volatile manner. A former Democratic Governor and currently Senator of an overwhelmingly Republican state, Muskie is a Polish Catholic. The era of religiously balanced tickets and of purely ethnic appeal may be dying, but it is not quite dead. Besides, there are considerably more Poles in the U.S. (6,000,000) than Greeks (600,000), giving the Democrats a clear edge in that department over Nixon's vice...
...faced, big-boned and monumentally tall (he is 6 ft. 4 in.), he displays the New England legislator's characteristic attention to detail and distaste for florid rhetoric. It was hardly foreseeable before last week that the Democratic vice-presidential nominee?who is in fact the son of a Polish-born tailor?would be matched against a Republican opposite number from Maryland with a curiously similar background. Muskie and Spiro Agnew, Richard Nixon's running mate, are both sons of immigrants. Both grew up in straitened circumstances. Both have foreshortened surnames, and both are generally unfamiliar to the American electorate...
...Moscow? In the countryside, Czechoslovak farmers tore down or changed the direction of every road sign they could find, even coordinated a circular route that put one Polish division back at its own border after traveling 36 miles. Lost tank commanders were greeted by a forest of new road signs that read: "To Moscow: 2,000 kilometers." In Bohemia, gypsies dismantled tank antennas while townspeople engaged the crews in friendly conversation. When Russian security officers started arriving in Prague to round up well-known liberals, residents daubed their house numbers with paint and switched virtually every street marker...
...pointed and contemporary as Levine's at their best. For a review about the cult of beauty in art, Grandville contributed a cartoon of a male au dience-literally all eyes-ogling a beauteous young thing in the front row of the grand tier. A review on Polish philosophy featured a huge bellows all but blowing people off the street with an endless stream of wind. For two books about Republicanism, there was a stout, complacent elephant in morning coat. The review of John Hersey's Algiers Motel Incident produced a long-beaked crane in judicial robes that...