Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greed and viciousness of the "great" American public will never cease to amaze me. It has devoured the lives of two Kennedys and is reacting like a spoiled child because it failed to consume a third life for its own pleasure...
Wallace's 13% was impressive in one sense: it was more than twice the combined totals won by Progressive Henry Wallace and Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond in 1948 and was the largest third-party turnout since Robert La Follette garnered nearly 17% in 1924. (Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party ran second with 27.4% in 1912.) However, outside the Deep South his showing shrank dramatically below his standing in the polls through the late summer and early fall. He failed to prove his contention that the "rednecks" he bragged about were sufficiently numerous or widely enough distributed to people...
...except for Texas. Nixon dominated most of the Midwestern and Western states. Historically, there is nothing too unusual about minority Presidents. In the 37 elections since the first serious attempt to count the popular vote, this was the 15th won with less than a majority, most often because of third and fourth parties. Lincoln, Cleveland, Wilson and Truman all had to make do with less than 50%, as did John F. Kennedy. But not since Wilson's first election in 1912 with 41.9% of the vote, has a President received so small a share as Nixon...
Mailer in his account of the Miami and Chicago conventions makes use of a certain objectivity for literary purposes--he refers to himself in the third person. But this is more than a mere literary device--it is a matter of form, and necessary if he is to maintain an aesthetic distance from his material, and be able to describe his involvement and his feelings with the freedom that impersonality allows. This--when the substance is of permanent or universal interest--is, of course, what makes literature...
Cross-country Team Captain Douglas Hardin of Winthrop House has been elected First Marshal of the Class of 1969. Second is Jimmy Jones, Leverett; third, W. Scott Robertson, Dunster; and fourth, William R. Jewett, Eliot...