Word: prendergast
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...young Wasp rosebuds swathed in yards of white voile, clustered on lawns, playing on beaches, posing on verandas or picking flowers. They make one realize how badly America needed modern art. Not until the ad vent of some of the impressionist-influenced painters of "the Eight"-say, Maurice Prendergast after 1900, with his vigorous friezes of jostling figures by the sea-does vitality reappear...
...open to everyone. But when you get a hold of this big thing filled with numbers, it's not always immediately, intuitively obvious what it's all about. It would take a great deal of time and effort to learn enough to know how to influence the budget," Thomas Prendergast '78, Adams House CHUL representative says...
...never been proved: that Johnson stole a Senate primary ejection in Texas in 1948; that J.F.K. defeated Nixon in 1960 only because votes were stolen with his approval in Illinois and Texas; that Harry Truman won a 1934 Senate primary election in Missouri on votes fraudulently delivered by the Prendergast machine...
Young's mission carried a heavy load of political evangelism for the new Administration-and he in turn was greeted like an old friend with warm abrazos. Reported TIME Correspondent Curtis Prendergast, who accompanied Young on part of his tour: "Carter could not have picked a more effective emissary for the diplomatic tone-setting job than Young. He functioned as considerably more than a U.N. ambassador, traveling virtually as an alternate Secretary of State with a retinue of specialists on the region from appropriate agencies, as well as the U.N. mission. No small part of his effectiveness...
...meeting in Kingston, Jamaica with a group of Peace Corps workers, reported Prendergast, "young men and women swarmed around Young as if he were a new Bobby Kennedy." Sounding one of his favorite themes, he urged his audiences to work for nonviolent solutions to racial problems: "Our African policy has grown out of sensitivity to the problems of blacks in the U.S. Blacks and whites in the South used to fight each other and both stayed poor. When we stopped, we got a Southern white President and a black ambassador...