Word: potentes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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IPHIGENIA IN AULIS is a painful, potent treatise of ambition and war, written some 2,400 years...
...York Times I he English is not always fit to print") to Charles de Gaulle's crude meddling in Canadian politics ("To put it kindly, he may be losing his grip") to the cliches of sportscasters (Roger Mans, according to a Newman parody, "swings a once potent mace but is still patrolling the outer garden with his ancient skill"). His architectural critique of the late New York World's Fair noted that most of the state pavilions "looked like the work of Governors' relatives...
Perhaps. Right now, thousands of party officials find themselves torn in two and sometimes even trisected as the contenders seek pledges of support. The odds have traditionally favored the incumbent President, who commands potent leverage. A selective White House survey of Democratic House members, excluding the prowar, pro-L.B.J. Southerners, showed fhat 160 preferred Johnson, eleven Kennedy, three McCarthy. In a New York Times count, Democratic state leaders predicted that 65% of the delegate votes at the convention would go to L.B.J. (for a total of 1,725 convention votes, more than 400 above the 1,312 needed...
Skeptical Members. Johnson faces a formidable challenge, for the context of presidential politics has changed almost beyond recognition since 1948, when Truman fought for survival by rallying the old machine pros to deliver him the nomination. For one thing, the bosses today are fewer and less potent than of yore. The Democratic machinery in key states is either barnacled or defunct. Perhaps the only major old-line boss on whom Johnson can rely is Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, who predictably issued an effusive-and rather offensive-defense of the President by declaring: "Even the Lord had skeptical members...
...which may not amount to an outright resurgence of the old rock 'n' roll-but it is a start. And considering the potent influence of the Beatles, the release of Lady Madonna means that there can only be more...