Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"Senator McCarthy is one of the Senate's few intellectuals and one of its most obvious hypocrites; the two go hand in hand."-Andrew Kopkind.
British Poet Edward Young's line, written in 1742, serves perfectly to describe the endlessly astonishing politics of 1968. From the snow frolics of New Hampshire to Senator Mark Hatfield's endorsement of Richard Nixon last week, the body politic has been atwitch with major shocks and minor...
Rarely had so many politicians altered their positions so radically and so swiftly. As mail cascaded into their Capitol Hill offices, Senators and Representatives who had long opposed even the mildest gun-control legislation nimbly switched sides. "Times change," said Nebraska's Republican Senator Roman Hruska, once Capitol Hill...
In the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination, public revulsion gave Congress its cue. Maryland's Democratic Senator Joseph Tydings, the sponsor of a tough bill that would require licenses for the purchase and possession of firearms and ammunition, and registration of the weapons, was deluged with...
Not all Hollywood actors have star quality at the polls. Take Gary Merrill (Twelve O'Clock High, All About Eve), for 17 years a Maine resident, who decided to take a crack at what he called "raising a little hell in Congress." Running as a G.O.P. peace candidate in...