Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conspiracy before, there, sure as hell is one now." As a practical matter, however, the radical movement has lost-at least for the time being-some of its shrewdest and most daring leaders. Thus the violent antiwar left, like the Black Panthers, will doubtless suffer from a vacuum...
...human outline for a knife thrower and finds the "courage born of despair," a derelict in a Communist country who is arrested for breaking the law by wearing a sad face. These are the legion of the lost unable to cope with either the wartime guilt or the moral vacuum created partly by the astounding material success of Germany's postwar economy...
PROVIDING this service to its readers is only one of the paper's functions. The paper as a whole is a very serious journalistic enterprise. In its first issue, it declared that it sought to fill Boston's "journalistic vacuum" by offering an alternative to the "unimaginative reporting" typical of Boston's three daily papers. These papers, The Phoenix noted, rely heavily on wire-service copy, even for Boston-related articles, and seem to regard a reporter assigned to Somerville as a "foreign correspondent...
...running around the Yard chasing after plush, green, turf-y windmills. Yet, there has yet to be a year in which thick piled grass graced Harvard Yard. Solution? Astro Turf! Not only does it require no maintenance but also it remains plus and green year round. Single dorm-crew vacuum cleaners would get rid of autumn leaves. That task now requires costly. whining behemoths. The investment, which could easily be managed with the elimination of Buildings and Grounds could prove very wise if Harvard Stadium is taken away. The steps of Widener could hold the average football game crowd...
Shriver Moving. Such is the vacuum of Democratic leadership that speculation persists that New York's Republican Mayor John Lindsay may turn Democrat (see box, page 13). At lower levels, there is also a dearth of attractive Democratic candidates in some key states. Sargent Shriver, long rumored ready to resign his ambassadorship in Paris to run for Governor of Maryland, is now considering moving to New York to seek the Senate seat once held by his brother-in-law Robert Kennedy, and currently occupied by Republican Charles Goodell...