Word: tempers
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...papers' general manager, Carter Glass III, 48, grandson of Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of the Treasury, who fills both his news columns and his editorials with the kind of racism that has disappeared from most Southern dailies. It takes very little to ignite Glass's legendary temper. When one of his photographers scuffled briefly with a Negro high school teacher last year, he was outraged that the police failed to arrest the teacher. When the police and the city manager ignored his demands for an apology, he went on an editorial rampage, denouncing the city fathers along...
...even as they tarried, Richard Nixon was indefatigably lining up convention delegates. Rockefeller's stern analysis, in fact, was sharply underscored by a Gallup poll of nearly three-fifths of the G.O.P. county chairmen, showing that a large majority of the local pros, most of them conservative in temper, believe that Nixon will be the next Republican candidate...
...beleaguered individual in an impersonal society-whether Negro sharecropper, white welfare recipient, or campus dropout. Above all, they speak, or shout, against the Viet Nam war. Says Sociologist Daniel Bell: "At best, the New Left is all heart. At worst, it is no mind." They changed the temper, the tone and to some extent the terms of political debate. The question is what function or future they have beyond that...
...Temper of the Times" was good until the last sentence, which was ridiculous. Just why is it reassuring to look forward to an unchanged situation no matter who wins? The purpose of a presidential election is not to provide a meaningless choice between two moderates but to give the electorate an opportunity to discard policies with which...
What no President can ignore is the temper of the Senate. Any long-delayed confirmation may be a serious loss of political face, especially near election time. It is, for instance, unwise to nominate any man who is overidentified with some militant cause. As a muckraking social reformer, "Peoples Lawyer" Brandeis so irked Senate conservatives (and anti-Semites) that his confirmation took more than four months, the longest delay in Supreme Court history. Even now, a Negro nominee might rouse a similar backlash, with consequent resentment by Negro voters. When Thurgood Marshall, now Solicitor General, was named a federal appeals...