Word: publican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...irresistible force. Eventually, Mrs. Nation's arrest record logged entries in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Scranton, Bayonne and Coney Island. The forces arrayed against her were formidable, and formidably unchivalrous. At the hands of defensive saloonkeepers, Carry suffered nearly as much damage as she dealt. One annoyed publican in Bangor, Me., knocked her down four times, and a gold breast pin was molded for the Topeka bartender's wife who slugged Carry...
...against the foolishness of fact begins with a university student who is trying to write a realistic novel between courses at the National University. It is a glum, pompously polysyllabic work which gets out of hand because the main character is Dermot Trellis, described as "an eccentric author," a publican who has "conceived the project of writing a salutary book on the consequences that follow wrongdoing." Trellis' characters, in turn, include Fergus MacPhellimey, a "pooka," which is some sort of leprechaun, and John Furriskey, whose task it is to attack women and behave at all times in an "indecent...
Within these broad bounds, a Republican comeback begins to seem plausible. By and large, the national Republican Party still holds to Lincoln's thesis: "In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere." Today, as in Lincoln's time publican emphasis is based on a faith in the individual's right to go as far and as high as he can within the limits ot his own abilities; the Republican credo includes a certain freedom from government interference in that effort. Yet modern Republicanism also recognizes, as Lincoln...
Furthermore, SCLC does not think it necessary to organize a third political party, like the MFDP, believing that a county organization but the ministers were enough. "We're not interested whether they vote Democratic or publican," Williams said Saturday. "Myself, I just vote for who ever is ahead in civil rights...
...Goldwater, he insisted that there had been no deal with Wallace. But Barry could hardly be anything but cheerful about Wallace's withdrawal. In San Francisco, he had already admitted that the Wallace campaign was "something to be concerned about." If the Re publican nominee "can't get his foot in the door in the South," said Barry, "he is not going anyplace." Wallace, he said, "has strength where I have strength...