Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FAVORITE SONS. The ability of a state leader to run as a favorite son in order to gain bargaining power at the convention has been largely blocked. The grass-roots party voters prefer to select delegates who are committed to a genuine candidate. Without the binding effect of the unit rule, a favorite son can no longer be certain that he will not be embarrassed by defections. Moreover, the rules now require that to be placed in nomination in Miami, a candidate must have the support of 50 delegates-no more than 20 of these from any single state. Thus...
...girls--their faces glazed and shiny--are volunteers, they say. They've come from as far away as Boston. But when asked if they support the President, they prefer to say, "No comment...
Producing Moliere is always a hazardous adventure. He originally wrote his plays for the Hollywood aristocracy at Versailles which demanded a more ethereal and intellectual theater than a modern audience is apt to prefer. The language carries the entire weight of the play, and the actors must do a virtuoso job of speaking the couples so that they do not lapse into a sing-song monotony. The current Lowell House production of Le Misanthrope overcomes most of these difficulties with a competence which occasionally turns into a braven assurance, and lets some of the funniest lines ever written break through...
...focusing on Muskie, the Republicans give the Democratic front runner greater prominence; the Administration seems to be treating him as if he were already the nominee. Further, by making Muskie out to be the leading dove, the Republicans have strengthened his position with antiwar voters who might otherwise prefer George McGovern or John Lindsay...
...abiding though cautious sense of fairness in blue-collar workers which emerges if one can just clear away the ideological rubric. Unlike many of the people holding positions of power, who feel they must view others at a distance which they think befits their stature, most workers prefer to deal strictly on a man-to-man basis. A demanding but even handed code of friendship prevails. A mainland Chinese appearing in their midst would be treated no differently than any other man if they could only see he was a man, and not just a "Communist...