Word: socked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drawling Gordon Wade, onetime director of communications for the Republican National Committee. Under the sponsorship of Kaiser Broadcasting, the pair have now held six bipartisan sessions in major cities, giving advice that ranges from the fundamental ("Money is the mothers' milk of politics") to the peripheral ("Get long socks. Nobody likes to see a patch of bare leg over a droopy sock"). Unusual as it seems, the idea is working. Said one Detroit pol: "I've learned more here than I've learned in twelve years in politics...
...cosponsored by eleven other Democratic Senators, including Presidential Hopefuls George McGovern and Hubert Humphrey. On his own, as part of a massive plan to distribute more of the nation's wealth to those with incomes of less than $12,000 annually, McGovern has proposed reforms that would sock it even harder to high earners. Humphrey has optimistically promised to come up with his special reform plan within 90 days after winning the presidency. There is a common thrust to the Democrats' main points...
...think the real problem is this: if a pitch is made in a political campaign to sock it to the economic royalists, that helps undermine the cooperative basis of society. In this sense the redistribution pitch is counterproductive. In terms of our whole social atmosphere, the last thing this country needs is a class war being waged from the campaign podiums this fall. But it looks very likely that this is going to happen...
Richard Nixon and the press have had each other to kick around for so long that the combat is sometimes treated as if it were a comfortable old joke, like the Laugh-In sock-it-to-me bit. But the issues involved deserve serious consideration. How much do the personal tastes and politics of newsmen color their treatment of a controversial public man? Where lies the boundary between analysis and advocacy? Is the press recklessly tearing down public confidence...
...banging at high speed, and a drum best that just won't quit "Rockin" With the King" could be as archetypal early rock song. It's easy to imagine Little Richard swinging his processed hair in the air, and wiggling his gaudily glad body as he screams out "Oh sock...