Word: reminders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Having FBI agents paying visits to a university campus is an ugly business. The fact that the agents are acting within their legal rights--for these students allegedly violated a federal law--makes it no less ugly. It serves to remind us that the war in Vietnam and the recalcitrance of the Johnson Administration have led many students to the desperation point...
...when Reagan allowed convicts to help harvest California fruit and vegetable crops, but Reagan at a press conference pointed out that the union had failed to provide sufficient manpower to bring in the crops before they were in danger of rotting. Said Reagan of the union leaders: "Sometimes they remind me of a dog sitting on a sharp rock howling with pain, who is too stupid to get up." Then he ordered his department of health and welfare to find out how many of the state's welfare recipients would be willing to go out and work...
Wish & Fact. Many Republicans-influenced perhaps by wish as much as fact-continued to believe that Rocky dreams privately of still greater enjoyment and satisfaction in Washington. Rockefeller's family even inclined to that view. "I remind you," noted Nelson's younger brother, Arkansas' Governor Winthrop, "that women and politicians have the right to change their minds." Maryland's Governor Spiro Agnew was more certain than ever that Rockefeller would run. Agnew's candidate for Vice President: California's Governor Reagan...
...Sorensen's remarks, quoted in your article about another talented Nebraska performer, remind me of the Nebraskan who died after moving to California. They brought his body to Lincoln for burial and one of his old lady friends, taking a last look at him in the casket, was heard to say: "Doesn't he look just fine! It sure did him a lot of good to move to California...
...novel calculated to disgust, Tattoo the Wicked Cross succeeds in its primary objective. Its subjects are prison, prestige and pederasty, more or less in that order, and will remind readers of the works of Jean Genet (The Blacks, Miracle of the Rose), celebrant of sodomy in the bastilles of modern France...