Word: wing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...showcase for the collection is the onetime U.S. Government Patent Office at 8th and G Streets, a neoclassical building designed in the 1830s. Freshly renovated at a cost of more than $6,000,000, the new museum next October will also include The National Portrait Gallery in its south wing. The collection can use all the space it has. Among its 11,000 pictures, sculptures and objets d'art are 445 Indian paintings by George Catlin, 18 by Albert Pinkham Ryder, 15 to 25 apiece by such U.S. impressionists as Hassam and Twachtman, plus a wax-company collection...
...through the window like Batman climbs Professor Orest Ranum, liberal, his academic robes billowing in the wind. We laugh at his appearance. He tells us that our action will precipitate a massive right wing reaction in the faculty. He confides that the faculty had been nudging Kirk toward resignation, but now we've blown everything; the faculty will flock to support the president. We'll all be arrested, he says, and we'll all be expelled. He urges us to leave. We say no. One of us points out that Sorel said only violent action changes things. Ranum says that...
...then I may, they say, be causing a right wing reaction and hurting the cause. Certainly it isn't conscionable to hold Coleman captive. But attention is being gotten. Steps will be taken in one direction or another. The polls will fluctuate and the market quiver. Our being here is the cause of an effect. We're trying to make it Good; I don't know what else to say or do. That is, I have no further statement to make at this time, gentlemen...
...furor began when Enoch Powell, 55, a right-wing Tory M.P. from the industrial Midlands, launched an attack on an antidiscrimination bill introduced by the Labor government to protect Britain's 1,000,000 coloreds-a term that covers shades from light tan to dark black and encompasses Indians and Pakistanis as well as African and West Indian Negroes. Powell, a onetime teacher of Greek and a classics scholar, has a record for independence and strong-mindedness. Having decided in 1963 to try for the Tories' top job, he refused to serve in Alec Douglas-Home...
...emergence of the Kennedy iconoclasts and the McCarthy moralists, of course, was probably not possible with-race riots, or a TV in every home. Still, the iconoclasts and moralists easily outnumber the Humphrey wing of the party. This faction seems to be composed, in large part, of older people who have grown comfortable and powerful with the FDR-HST-JFK-LBJ brand of liberalism: give a little to everybody at home and keep the Communists at bay abroad...