Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite this very pointed opening remark, Kennedy chose to focus his speech not on his role in the 1972 presidential elections, but rather on the importance of the student vote in bringing about "drastic, if not revolutionary" change in the present system...
...thoroughly political man, Richard Nixon last week seized upon Senator Edmund Muskie's amazingly candid remark (TIME, Sept. 20) that he would not favor a black as his running mate in 1972. Muskie reasoned it might keep him from winning and thus from fighting for racial justice as only a President...
...only thing dumber than a New York City taxicab driver is someone who would print any remark that a New York City cab driver makes on any subject other than how best to insult or vilify his customers. Remarks by cab drivers concerning the mayor are out of place in a national magazine. New York cab drivers are a burden that can be borne only by New Yorkers. No other city would put up with these morons...
...Suvero once declared that his work must be able "to defend itself against an unarmed man." That is a peculiar-sounding remark, evoking an image of the sculpture as punching bag. But it is of a piece with the aims and the actual look of his constructions. They are to be swung on, climbed, played with. "Mark can set kids going the way nobody else I've heard of can," says his dealer, Richard Bellamy. "His loft is always full of them...
...thing to Bread and Roses. They can (and did) mobilize a group of New York City liberationists to stand on street corners and whistle at construction workers, complimenting them on their bleeps and hardhats. And street confrontations can anger women like N. O. W.'s Ti-Grace Atkinson to remark that the only honest woman is a whore: at least she gets paid for walking the streets...