Word: rayburnisms
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...Will They Ever Finish Bruckner Boulevard? is a collection of her Sunday articles, which are sadly often hidden among gardening and coin and stamp collection news. She does not limit her criticism to New York City but attacks "urbicide" everywhere. Washington's Mussolini-classical Rayburn Building she calls "the biggest star-spangled architectural blunder of our time." Centers for the arts in New York, Washington, and Atlanta arouse her ire with their timid unwillingness to assert conscious modernity. Her criticism also strikes forcefully at the destruction of architecturally significant structures; she favors tasteful preservations with a social purpose, not reconstructed...
...though, any purge or reform must await the return of a strong Democratic president with the guts to lend his prestige to the effort. Not since FDR has the presidential party ever amassed enough muscle to intimidate the congressional party-although the prospects have improved somewhat since the Johnson-Rayburn days. While Galbraith may be right about the Dixie nemesis, no one should expect the Democratic Party to inflict on itself a massive internal bleeding in its current state of health. With perhaps a lingering nostalgia for the days of Southern populism, some liberals expect the problem to take care...
...Hill since his 1954 appointment by President Eisenhower; of cancer; in Washington. An engineer rather than an architect, Stewart created blocky, high-cost designs that came under heavy criticism from both Congressmen and fine-arts commissioners, who regarded his east-front Capitol extension, New Senate Office Building and Rayburn Building as national disasters. Yet when congressional foes sought his ouster, Stewart rallied the political power to beat back every attempt...
...lifetime of labor and dreams. An Irish striver who had supported his fatherless family and raised himself from the meanest poverty of South Boston, he was the first Roman Catholic ever elected Speaker. He had worked and waited with loyalty and patience under the patronage and shadow of Sam Rayburn for more than three decades. Finally he achieved the rostrum once held by Clay and Cannon, Clark and Longworth...
There is little doubt who McCormack's successor as Speaker will be if the Democrats hold a House majority in the 92nd Congress. Just as McCormack moved up from majority leader upon Rayburn's death, the present majority leader, Carl Albert of Oklahoma, 62, is assured of succession. Slightly more flexible than McCormack on questions of congressional organization, slightly less adamant in support of the war, Albert is acceptable to all the Democratic factions. Both Mills and Udall promptly announced that they would back Albert...