Word: roger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shoddy performance" of the Ford administration and its lack of "concern for doing anything" influenced his support for Carter, Roger D. Fisher '43, professor of Law, said yesterday. The election offers a clear choice between "government that will do something or [one that will] just tread water," he said...
...from all over the country, assemble around the convention hall. Most are shut out, but somehow Kovic manages to enter. Enraged, near tears, he protests furiously, crying out at the awkward and indifferent Nixon delegates. "Look at me, look at your war!" The television cameras catch sight of him, Roger Mudd of CBS approaches, and for two minutes of national television all the pent up shame and rage and grief gushes...
...many columnists, cartoonists and comedians who provide the lunatic fringework of political commentary, this year's presidential race has not been a laughing matter. "The banality of the candidates destroys humorous comment," complains Roger Angell, humorist and a fiction editor of The New Yorker. To Johnny Carson, Carter v. Ford is "fear of the unknown v. fear of the known." Chirped veteran Mockingbird Mort Sahl: "Choosing between them is like choosing between Seconal and Nembutal...
...route to help dedicate a screwworm eradication plant in Mexico, Earl Butz took a plane to California just after the Republican National Convention in Kansas City. He could have flown either Continental or TWA, but his aide, Roger Knapp, chose TWA. In the first-class compartment, the Agriculture Secretary spied Singers Pat Boone and Sonny Bono, and John Dean, the former White House counsel who had blown the whistle on Richard Nixon and had just worked the convention as a writer for Rolling Stone. A gregarious man who likes to flaunt his snappy country-and often barnyard-sense of humor...
...such different political and social views from my own." Denying any personal attacks on Hellman, Trilling cited Scoundrel Time in her manuscript as an example of "diminishing intellectual force" in the community. "I know what the hell's in the goddam manuscript," commented Little, Brown Editor in Chief Roger Donald, indicating that other passages were even more critical. As for Hellman? "I find it very painful," she said, "that two old friends who don't have to agree politically, but who like each other personally, ever came to this point...