Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon himself is the embodiment of Middle America. There is opportunity for everyone, his mother taught him back in Whittier, Calif.?work hard, love your country, never give up. God likes fighters. Nixon's philosophers are Norman Vincent Peale and Billy Graham. Like the rest of his Administration, the President has gone far beyond his humble origins. But Nixon, John Mitchell and Spiro Agnew minister to and play upon the discontent of Middle America by conjuring up the imperatives of discipline and restraint...
...inspections." More specifically, the guide's 16 food tasters and bed testers reported "disgusting coffee, cold toast, tinned juices, brought into one's room with the delicacy of a hangman." The press concurred. "I'm sorry, but we knew that already," wrote Daily Mail Columnist Vincent Mulchrone. "Breakfast, like beer, is one of those subjects the British go on about until they are at their chauvinistic worst. The fact is that the great British breakfast has been a very phony British institution for a long time. While panels of French and Italian doctors are urging their people...
...Voices -24 black ghetto youngsters from East Harlem-all this attention is astonishing. The present group got going a year and a half ago with help from urban development programs trying to encourage neighborhood kids to keep off the streets. It rehearses in an empty supermarket purchased by The Vincent Astor Foundation. Under such auspices, the vocal results might have been expected to be worthy, therapeutic, useful-anything but exciting entertainment...