Word: vincents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make a Kennedy cocktail: three parts Old Fitzgerald, one part holy water, add a twist of Norman Vincent Peale...
PATRICK B. VINCENT Christchurch, New Zealand...
...told the depressed areas that they have been robbed of their due by an Eisenhower veto, he has told schoolteachers that the Republicans are responsible for run-down school buildings and low teacher salaries. He took hold of an attack on his religion led by the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale and turned it into an asset with his courageous question-and-answer session with the Houston ministers-and his lieutenants saw to it that the film of the session was telecast in key Catholic as well as Protestant areas. In the grueling ordeal of the presidential campaign, his qualities...
...Detroit, Comic Mort Sahl mused: "It wasn't Kennedy who made the real rebuttal to Norman Vincent Peale and those Protestant ministers. It was Adlai Stevenson when he was in St. Paul. Adlai said he found St. Paul appealing and Peale appalling." Then he added: "These can't be the original candidates-they must be the road company." ¶ In Los Angeles, the newest bumper strip rejoices: "BE THANKFUL ONLY...
...Norman Vincent Peale's bomb was Nixon's worst piece of inherited bad luck in the campaign so far, the agreement to debate with Kennedy on TV was his own worst tactical mistake. Though Nixon drew even with Kennedy in the later rounds, the four encounters together helped Kennedy enormously-not so much by weakening Nixon's public image as by strengthening Kennedy's. Before the debates, after 7½ years as Vice President, Nixon was far better known, and though he had many detractors, seemed a man of much greater maturity and experience-though their...