Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Multiplied by Five. All last week, as he flailed away at Dwight Eisenhower and the Republicans in campaign speeches in Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and California, Stevenson industriously worked not only to ride the Democratic coattail but to cloak himself from head to foot in the popularity of his party's most attractive public figures. After reaching for Magnuson in Washington, he jumped to the side of Wayne Morse in Oregon. Then in California he multiplied the tactic by importing the services of five silver-tongued, big-name Democratic officeholders-New Jersey's Governor Robert Mey-ner, Pennsylvania...
Wolfe speaks for and to the young, particularly to young men who know instinctively that "it is good to eat, to drink, to sleep, to fish, to swim, to run, to travel to strange cities, to ride on land, sea and in the air upon great machines, to love a woman, to try to make a beautiful thing." He speaks against the naysayers who consider such occupations futile, and orders them to "go bury themselves in the earth and get eaten by worms to see if that is less futile." Tom Wolfe swings a bludgeon against lawyers, pedants, critics, Communists...
...cities of the world; when abroad, he longed for home. From London in November he wrote: "If you have sat in the parlor reeking with its gravedamp chill, if then you go out into the steaming air into a street of villas, catch your bus and ride home through vast areas of drab brick, lightened by an occasional pub in which you see a few sodden wretches mournfully ruminant over a glass of bitter beer-if you have gone through this, then, my boy . . . your guts will ache with passion for the Happy Land, the glorious country with the bright...
Gradualism implies one other attribute, more perhaps of mind than of policy. It is one often overlooked by Northern Crusaders who want to ride off on a charger--whether black or white--and blaze a trail for The Cause of Integration. And this is that the North, too, has its racial problem. True, it is somewhat hidden behind residential segregation or unwritten custom, but it is just as real, and just as wrong. The problem becomes more apparent when one takes a look at the statistics of the very few Northern Negroes who are adequately prepared for college...
...political business to every nook and cranny of New York State (Bob knows upstate New York as do few city politicians and-more important to this year's Senate campaign-upstate New York knows him). Recalls Wagner: "Sometimes Father would show signs of fatigue as we'd ride along. But the minute he'd see a hall and a band he'd get a new lease on life." One day in 1926 Robert Wagner Sr. whisked 16-year-old Bob away on a sudden "vacation" to Deal, NJ. There the father (by that time a judge...