Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grazing cattle. But the western half of the state is ruggedly mountainous, the steep slopes necked with aspen and capped with snow. Colorado is a land of mining ghost towns and booming oil, gas, missile and atom-research centers. Men in cow boy boots and ten-gallon hats still swing off the cattle trains; but now other men, in Brooks Brothers suits, stride purposefully down the ramps of jet airliners at Denver's Stapleton Airfield. Colorado is also the stage for a couple of ig62's most fascinating political races-and even in these, the contrasts are dramatic...
...fighting for the independent and marginal Democratic vote, including unreconciled McCormack supporters. Since Curtis supporters have nowhere else to go, the word Republican has been deleted from the Lodge campaign. Lodge prefers the term 'independent'--to the amusement of Stuart Hughes. Also, in his effort to draw the "swing vote" Lodge secks to identify with the President. He stresses agreement with much of the JFK program and invariably mentions the Distinguished Service award he received from Kennedy. "It doesn't hurt," says Lodge, "it doesn't hurt...
Against Rhodes's I'm-ahead-so-you've-got-to-come-get-me tactics, Di Salle has only recently come out of his sulk. At his best he is very effective, with a combination of good humor and emotion that can swing votes. He tackles the touchy issue of his tax increases squarely. "The highway worker complains about the gasoline tax," Di Salle tells his audiences. "But he still has his job and is building more highways, isn't he? The schoolteacher complains about the sales tax, but she is making a better salary...
Both Hearst and its White House correspondent recognize-and exploit-the value of the presidential interest; on Kennedy's recent West Coast swing, the Hearst papers gave blurb stories about Marianne nearly as much space as Kennedy...
...Aaron Bohrod has been biding his time, waiting for the day when the dazzle of abstract expressionism will die away and large numbers of people will appreciate his resolutely realistic paintings of symbol-laden still life. His wait may be ending. The pendulum of public taste started to swing back toward the figure, and words like "realism." "craftsman ship" and "beauty" are appearing again in art criticism. A show of what Bohrod has been doing while he waited opened last week in Chicago, and 20 of the still lifes on view-most no bigger than a phone book-have already...