Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Detroit newspapers railed against ten years ago, they now accept, and Cavanagh, like LBJ, knows how to use their acceptance to make further gains. At the same time, Republicans--even Michigan Republicans--have changed. George Romney managed to convince voters that he was not the same kind of politician as the reactionaries that controlled the State Senate (although he is closer to them than most people think). Sixties Liberals have worked uneasily with Romney, but the Fifties Liberals have not been able to adjust successfully to the Romney appeal. They have a hard time realizing that state elections...
...Adventurers' international-jet-set subjects would confound a Zola. In the hands of Robbins they become like the projections of CinemaScope: highly colored, nine times larger than life, and relentlessly two-dimensional. One of the projections is Diogenes ("Dax") Xenos, diplomat, soldier, businessman, patriot, politician, international satyr and unintentional satire. Dax is to women what Dash is to washing machines: he makes them feel ten feet tall. His sometime pals, a French playboy and a White Russian con man, are not far behind in their technique: one of them receives a gold cigarette case from a female admirer inscribed...
Doherty's pleas for unity are far from a complete answer to his party's problems, and it is hard to believe that such an experienced politician could be so superficial in his analysis. For, in addition to its perennial power struggles, the weakness of the Democratic party under Doherty may be traced to a breakdown in performance, a dearth of exciting candidates, and the unwillingness of Senator Kennedy to provide the leadership that is so desperately needed...
...Michigan politician knows how to play the underdog better than Jerome Cavanagh, who as an obscure young lawyer in 1961 overcame opposition from both business and labor to become mayor of Detroit. "I won then," he said last week, "and I can win now." Thus Cavanagh, 37, announced that he would challenge one of the state's best-known Democrats, six-term former Governor G. Mennen Williams, 55, for the party's nomination as its U.S. Senate candidate in next August's primary...
HOGAN'S GOAT. The dialogue is blather and brogue, but the important thing is Playwright William Alfred's unvarnished view of priest and politician campaigning for authority over the Irish electorate in the Brooklyn...