Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Nixon's eight-month period of relative immunity from criticism on the Viet Nam war was over. The opponents of the war came out spoiling for a fight. A freshman Republican Senator, New York's conservative-turned-liberal, Charles Goodell, even had the temerity to introduce legislation...
Arkansas Senator J. W. Fulbright seized on Goodell's initiative, which he called "ingenious," to announce that he will resume war hearings in his Foreign Relations Committee. Two dozen Democratic Senators and Representatives tried to make the war a sharply partisan issue for the first time. They pledged their...
BASICALLY, I'm pretty apolitical. Given a choice between polities and art, I prefer my art unsullied. So, why ain't this a drama review you ask, Because I began last Sunday by reading the Times' "The Week in Review," which predicted that the nation would stumble into yet another...
Pastore's Complaint. (Pas∙'t r∙ēz K m∙'plānt), n. A phobia against violence and sex on television, exacerbated by recent disturbances in American society and by the Noxzema "take-it-all-off" commercial. [Named after Rhode Island Senator John...
Avoiding Muscle. The Nixon Administration earlier this year began requiring contractors in Philadelphia to present detailed plans for hiring Negroes in order to qualify to bid on federal construction projects. George Meany and many contractors argue that the "Philadelphia Plan" amounts to a racial-quota system barred by the 1964...