Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...action." The Northeast was Humphrey country, with the important exception of New Jersey, where Governor Richard Hughes blamed what he termed Wallace's "hate vote" for the narrow Democratic defeat. Nixon and Wallace divided the South, except for Texas. Nixon dominated most of the Midwestern and Western states. Historically, there is nothing too unusual about minority Presidents. In the 37 elections since the first serious attempt to count the popular vote, this was the 15th won with less than a majority, most often because of third and fourth parties. Lincoln, Cleveland, Wilson and Truman all had to make...
...nation of Stoics. From the outset, Americans have been so compulsive about winning that losing is almost unAmerican. In this sense, the U.S. is only the most extreme example of the Western trait that Oswald Spengler described as Faustian?the refusal to believe in a static order or a fixed fate. The very freedom of Western culture puts a heavy burden on losers. Western man's destiny is largely up to him?and so are his failures. The fabulous opportunities open to a new people on a new continent became the basis of a secular religion, a faith in competition...
...winning season since 1958. That first year under Allen, the Rams won eight games and lost six. Last year, they scored the most points (398) in the N.F.L., allowed the fewest (196), and posted a record of eleven victories, one defeat and two ties before finally losing the Western Conference title in a play-off with Lombardi's Packers. So far this year, the Rams have won seven games, lost only one, and they are the choice of many experts to represent the N.F.L. in this year's Super Bowl...
...grisly drama of the war -- the atrocities, the starving masses, the jungle fighting -- rational thinking is overwhelmed by emotionalism. In the Western world cries of outraged morality for the arsenal of the press and public. The crisis in Nigerian seems a clear-cut case of the good guys versus the bad guys. The massacres in the North justify the Ibo cause and condemn the Lagos government. With self-righteous verbal overkill, defenders of Biafra cry that Lagos is waging a war of genocide...
...poet can do today is to warn.' But being a woman, her warning is more shrill, penetrating, visionary than Owen's. Owen's came out of the particular circumstances of the trenches, and there is nothing to make us think that if he had not been on the Western Front ... he would not have warned anyone about anything at all. He would have been a nice chap and a quiet poet. With Sylvia Plath, her femininity is that her hysteria comes completely out of herself...