Word: politicoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first vote of the evening, Artson won the presidency unopposed. Though this was not a major surprise, club members had expected at least token competition. Esty later told friends that he had not run because he had too many other activities and "did not enjoy being considered a politico" after the vice presidential controversy a few months before...
That's the kind of man Hanfstaengl was, a strange mix of Harvard old boy, genial party host and amateur politico...
...Jones became the late George Moscone's Housing Authority Commissioner in San Francisco two years ago because he could, on six hours' notice, produce two or three thousand obedient bodies to flesh out a campaign rally or go door-to-door with literature. His services apparently went to the politico willing to do the most in return. Jones could deliver, even if his political army was somehow reminiscent of Nixon's Youth in 1972, that wonderful army that would begin spontaneous cheering at 9:28 and spontaneously stop at 9:33, when the Trickster would spontaneously appear. If you didn...
...said during the question and answer period, "If we're not taken seriously by the Faculty and administration, then we're not being responsible to the people who elected us." Deutsch's other responses also seemed to place him to the right of Sanchez, who pleased the "Anti-Junior-Politico" sect by his response to a question as to whether he was a Government concentrator: "I came to Harvard and took Gov 30. Now I'm a history major." As in the race for chairman, the vote was close--this time 36 to 34--but Deutsch and the moderates prevailed...
That was an understatement. The Wanting of Levine, the first venture into fiction by Dr. Michael Halberstam '53, is an eminently likeable book. The story of A.L. Levine, millionaire Jewish politico, and his accidental campaign for the presidency of an America grown tired and fat and eager for a new face, is most of what any novel should be: funny, touching, slapstick across the surface but with a strong subtle current running along the seabed, a roaring good story with a moral that doesn't have to hit you across the head. Halberstam, who won the 1953 Dana Reed Prize...