Word: right
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Right People, Birmingham...
Maybe you're right in feeling that he understates the part-it's the Method, and it isn't noted for its ability to cope with poetic cadences. But when he says that the fall of Oedipus is inevitable, gods or no gods, you ought to believe him. The gods have been blamed long enough. Arrogance alone causes Oedipus' problems. His arrogant, or if you prefer, hubristic pride is the tragic flaw in an otherwise noble character...
Meanwhile, Spiro T. Agnew veered more sharply to the right in a deliberate effort to woo Wallaceites to Nixon. At times, except for his flat Baltimore accent, Agnew indeed could almost have changed places with Wallace. In Woodbridge, N.J., he attacked "phony intellectuals who don't understand what we mean by hard work and patriotism." Probably not even Wallace would have said, however, as Agnew did in Detroit, that "if you've seen one ghetto area, you've seen them all." Certainly few could have matched his airy defense of the established order. "You may give...
...states. One map goes so far as to try to show the location of troubles that have yet to occur. When violence flared briefly at Columbia University last month, Nixon headquarters quickly received intelligence reports that similar disturbances were planned at colleges across the nation. The reports, naturally, went right onto the futures...
...defend its foreign allies and interests. To draw a specific perimeter of defense would obviously encourage aggressors to grab anything on the other side of the line. Still, the candidates could at least specify which areas they regard as vital to American security, while just as clearly reserving a right to move elsewhere, if need...