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During his brief career as an amateur politico Portlist has collected dozens of uncomplimentary labels. He has been called a demagogue, a Communist, and a scapegoat. His own view of himself is less sinister. "I'm a crank," he declares. "The far right doesn't have a monopoly...
Although he has been fascinated with parties and elections since his college days, Portlist prefers to stay on the fringes of active politics. He has never run for office or campaigned formally for any candidate. But he has attended every Democratic National Convention his devotion to Adlai Stevenson earned Mr. Portlist nationwide attention; while Senator Eugene McCarthy was making his famous plea for Stevenson's nomination, the gallery chair on which Portlist was jumping up and down collapsed, nearly pitching him over the balcony railing...
...Portlist has lost none of the intellectual zest that brought him a magna in history and literature at Harvard in 1954. He wrote his thesis on Henry David Thoreau's part in Brook Farm, the experimental community begun by George Ripley in 1841. Portlist is still an amateur student of Transcendentalism, but it was his interest in politics that moved him to organize the Massachusetts Citizens for the Great Society...
...guiding principle of the MCGS is a total commitment to the national goals which President Johnson will set forth soon after the election. Portlist describes the spirit of the group as "a realistic dedication to peace on earth and good will among...
...immediate aim of the MCGS is to help win unanimous public support for Johnson's vision of a greater America. Once he is satisfied that Massachusetts is thoroughly sold on the Great Society, Mr. Portlist hopes to turn the MCGS into a public relations unit working on behalf of other worthy causes in the state...