Word: trended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...screen to hide their real concern. Some Republicans, hoping for victory in November, do not want Johnson to name anyone to the court for the remainder of his term, since that might deprive a G.O.P. President of the chance to select his own man. Many Southerners dislike the activist trend of the court altogether and see Fortas as a too liberal successor to Warren. As Mississippi's John Stennis complained, "He has clearly shown his alignment with the liberal bloc and has often provided the fifth vote in the all too numerous 5-to-4 decisions by which...
Party loyalties have been loosening steadily. Many restless Republicans lean toward McCarthy, while many more Republicans would not consider a Humphrey victory a disaster. Numbers of disenchanted Democrats, on the other hand, like Rockefeller. The trend is underscored by a recent Gallup survey. Among voters of all ages, 46% consider themselves Democrats, 27% Republicans, 27% independents. But among those under 30, only 38% call themselves Democrats and 22% Republicans. The remaining 40% regard themselves as independents?voters who are more concerned with current is sues and individual excellence than with traditional party labels or party loyalty...
Simon Says. The bubble-gum trend has been puffed up largely by a 25-year-old former actor and rock-'n'-roll singer named Neil Bogart. Last year, as general manager of the newly formed Buddah record label, he set the formula with a recording called Simon Says. It sold 1,700,000 copies. The latest in a line of 28 similar disks is Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, by the Ohio Express, which last week was No. 15 on Billboard's bestseller chart...
Still, the trend is in that general direction. "Our ultimate plan," says Wise, "is to develop a system that would pay all auto-accident victims except a few flagrant violators, such as hit-and-run drivers...
...floor above, the visitor discovers a bizarre and even gruesome realism, one that may be the most important new trend signaled by Documenta IV. Edward Kienholz's grotesque nude on a sewing machine inhabits a macabre room furnished like a brothel. New York's Paul Thek shows a roomful of chunks of dead flesh sculpted in wax. Italy's Michelangelo Pistoletto presents sarcophagi and chest-high chamber pots. Sweden's Oyvind Fahlstrom is represented by Firing Squad, a plastic snowbank filled with cryptic symbols including L.B.J. on a cross, bugs and butterflies...