Word: pryor
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...event marked the IOP's first event of the semester--and the first set of speakers introduced by former Sen. David H. Pryor (D-Ark.), who replaced former Sen. Alan K. Simpson (R-Wyo.) as IOP director...
Morris interrupted Pryor's introduction to point out that he had "stacked the deck" in his debate with Weisberg...
...Vidal knows politics first-hand. He grew up in Washington, D.C., where his grandfather, Thomas Pryor Gore, served as senator from Oklahoma; Vidal's father was FDR's director of air commerce. His stepsister was Jackie Kennedy, and through her he became a friend of Jack Kennedy. Vidal himself was an unsuccessful candidate for a congressional seat in 1960, a race in which he was endorsed by friend and neighbor Eleanor Roosevelt. Some of "The Best Man" came straight out of this background. "I showed the play to Jack [Kennedy] and he gave me a couple of lines," Vidal recalls...
...edges of pop culture scrape harder these days, and its most extravagant enchantments are promoted to ever younger kids. When your 10-year-old comes home singing "Bitch I'ma kill you" - Eminem again, in a Valentine to his mother - you don't care if you once adored Richard Pryor and William Burroughs. You turn into one of those angry swing voters...
...January 1998 5 - Alan K. Simpson, former Republican senator from Wyoming, is appointed as head of the Institute of Politics. Simpson's tenure ended this spring; he will be replaced by David Pryor, former Democratic senator from Arkansas...