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Originally viewed in the Nixon camp as a hard-working but unobtrusive No. 2 man, the Maryland Governor was indeed industrious. He was anything but unobtrusive. In three months, "Agnewism" became virtually a synonym of "malapropism," and Democrats got good mileage out of such comments as "If you've seen one slum, you've seen them all." A Democratic TV commercial consisted of the simple legend "Agnew for Vice President?"?and nearly 30 seconds of laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 39th Doge | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

Speaking in Lowell Lecture Hall, at the first Law School Forum of the year, Alinsky said, "Organization is a synonym for power, and action is the best way to organize." He described the role of the white liberal today as "working with the ghetto blacks as partners and, more importantly, doing their own thing in the white community and creating power blocs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alinsky Sees Organization As Key to Black Progress | 10/26/1968 | See Source »

...finds hippies under every bed. He accuses them of mindless sloganeering, but then goes on to scrawl his own slogans: "Negro jazz is masochistic"; "This is the generation that uses the word Love as a synonym for Hate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anti-Youth Movements | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

...variant for cheek whiskers, the term sideboards is not that new. As early as 1890, it was used as a more graphic synonym for sideburns, named after the Civil War's Union General Ambrose Everett Burnside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Beards, Boards & Brushes | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

...principal man in her life is Albert, a prickly foreigner, a controversial figure to press and public, but the lord of Victoria's heart. It was Albert, not Victoria, who was so all-fired prim and proper that the term Victorian was saddled on her era as a synonym for Puritan rigidity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: Portrait of a Queen | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

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