Word: radice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...injects excitement into state contests that have evoked ennui. Hence the President will have covered at least 22 states in the campaign's final 21 days. Last week he sent Pat to Michigan, Minnesota, Florida and Nevada; Spiro Agnew continued to sweep across the country juggernaut-style, scourging radic-libs (see ESSAY...
...Chop! Done. In one corner of his dream stands a forlorn J. William Fulbright, talking while no one listens. With other prickly Democratic Sena'e oligarchs, Fulbright has been toppled by a Republican capture of the Senate. In a far recess of the Senate chamber, a vestigial cluster of radic-libs cowers as a troglodytic terrorizer in tailored twill cracks a whip over their heads. At last the President slips into the sleep of serenity and contentment...
Much as he thirsts for political control, the President's overriding aim is for an ideological majority. Hence the incessant cry that the Senate needs rescue from radic-libs. Southern conservative Democratic Senators are not fired upon; Republican liberals have pointedly been excluded from the Administration's campaign roles...
...Boxed in by liberal Democrat Richard Ottinger and Conservative Party Candidate James Buckley, Goodell is running third. His seat is one of four that the Republicans are in grave danger of losing, and the Republicans are doing all possible to ensure the loss. Spiro Agnew has proclaimed Goodell a radic-lib, a category otherwise reserved for liberal Democrats. He compared Goodell's ideological turnabout to a celebrated sex-change operation. Goodell, said Agnew, was the "Christine Jorgensen of the Republican Party," a remark that evoked substantial revulsion and a demand for an apology from Miss Jorgensen?which Agnew refused. Though...
...also created a new derogatory label: "radical-liberal" (he sometimes shortened it to "radic-lib"). The term seems to include nearly all opposition on the Administration's left, particularly in Congress and on the campuses. The Vice President used the expression with relish at his first stop in Springfield, delighting his Republican audience. As he jetted on to Casper, Wyo., and San Diego, Agnew embroidered on the theme. He hit at "a disruptive radical and militant minority-the pampered prodigies of the radical-liberals in the U.S. Senate...