Word: towerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...distance on a rostrum he seems young enough to be giving his all once more for good old Notre Dame. His cheeks flush, the light blue eyes sparkle (through untinted contact lenses that correct his lifelong myopia), the lanky (6 ft. 1 in.) figure seems to tower over his audience...
...Used Carr." Since Connally is a shoo-in for reelection, liberals decided at the state Democratic convention last month to visit their revenge on Attorney General Waggoner Carr, the Governor's hand-picked candidate to oust first-term Republican Senator John Tower. Stomping angrily out of Austin's City Auditorium, liberal delegates yelled through a resolution authorizing their followers to support Tower, who stumped Texas for Goldwater in 1964 but has moderated his views somewhat...
...liberals reason that a sizable vote for Tower, 42, the state's first G.O.P. Senator since Reconstruction, would enhance liberal influence in Democratic ranks and ultimately help to open the way for a genuine two-party system in Texas politics. Coolly watching the Democratic fight from the sidelines, Tower says simply that he "welcomes support from wherever it occurs." No easy target, Candidate Carr, 48, piled up more votes (1,900,000) in 1964 than any other office seeker in the state's history. All the same, there are some 30,000 to 40,000 hard-core liberal...
...psych turns up everywhere in the news. Lyndon Johnson's hostile or suspicious behavior is ascribed to his "regional inferiority complex." Russia's inflexibility is attributed to the custom of binding newborn babies tight in swaddling clothes. Charles Whitman's shooting people from the clock tower of the Texas campus is diagnosed as a case of sexual overcompensation (on a phallic tower with a phallic rifle). Stanford Associate English Professor Bruce Franklin notes that "our basic method of fighting in Viet Nam is anal-sadistic. A man in an airplane is in a nonorganic environment, symbolically defecating...
When the centennial bells ring out, wildly, in the tiny outport churches of Newfoundland, in the cathedrals of Quebec City, in Peace Tower on Parliament Hill, in prairie steeples and out to the West Coast, they will ring in a 100th year that Canadians should indeed find a cause for cheer. In the sound and fury of the centennial celebrations, Canadians are bound to hear echoes of their own success in turning the wilderness into a thriving nation...