Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indications such as the Harris poll reinforced the prevailing feeling in Washington that the national mood is one of anger and frustration compounded by a sense of disorientation. Congress, which senses these things with the politician's instinct for self-preservation, sees divergent trends. It discerns a conservative swing in the country-a swing accentuated, paradoxically, by the murder of one of the nation's most articulate liberals. The rationale is that the majority of Americans, the white and the relatively affluent, now crave a return to a kind of ordered normality that may in fact never again...
...result on many West European campuses, despite the continued poster popularity of Marcuse's grizzled visage, has been a swing away from his thought to a fresh classroom consciousness of Marx. In West Germany, where West Berlin's Neukölln factory quarters became so hostile to anti-Viet Nam demonstrators last winter that one was badly beaten, S.D.S. activists are trying to reconstruct workers with a missionary effort. Groups of students drop in on worker pubs, strike up conversations over checker matches, and gradually set up small groups that aim to determine their common anticapitalistic grievances. However...
...school's pass catching records (he grabbed nine in his career finale against Yale) and was instrumental in Harvard's Ivy League co-championship in 1966. Also the captain of the baseball team, Lord attracted major league scouts with his wide range as a center fielder and his powerful swing. Although he did not hit as well this spring as in the past, his coaches give him much credit for Harvard's Eastern Championship. Lord will sign with the pro football Dallas Cowboys at the end of the baseball playoffs. Football coach John Yoviscin calls him "as good a football...
...taxi ride to Queens, where the Phi Beta Kappa poet was to give a reading. Later, Peter sat in on a midnight bull session with students in Buffalo, then drove the next morning to State College, Pa., with Sociologist Edgar Friedenberg, interviewing him en route. Babcox ended his school swing in a talk with a Penn State senior while flying back to New York. Checking out the facts in Manhattan was Researcher Erika Sanchez (Hunter College, '60); the final grading was done by Senior Editor John Elson (Notre Dame...
...from their pollsters, California Democratic Chief Jesse Unruh peeled off 90 lbs. to reshape his corpulent boss image, and Pennsylvania Democrat Milton Shapp discarded his maroon socks (but lost the 1966 gubernatorial race anyway). Candidates also use private polls to find out where the large and decisive mass of swing voters is located, and then concentrate their campaigning in those areas. Most important, polls tell what issues the voters really care about and how deeply they care...