Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Included in the 18 who lost subsequent bids for election was Dick Clark, the highly respected liberal Senator from Iowa who fell victim to a right-wing, right-to-life attack. Bill Baxley, crusading attorney general of Alabama, lost a race for Governor; Luther Hodges, successful bank chairman, lost a Senate primary in North Carolina to a man who outspent him 20 to 1; Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, California Congresswoman, lost a race for state attorney general; Andrew Pickens Miller, Virginia's attorney general, lost a race for Senator. Vermont Governor Thomas Salmon, who ably fought the land developers...
...Garry Wills, 45, is a writer and columnist who defies tidy labeling. He carefully disengages himself from the right wing in America, which he claims is simply an "amalgam" of individualism in economic affairs. He is skeptical that the political system can produce beneficial change and looks instead to forces "from the principled minority." Wills, who spent six years in a Catholic seminary, says that "the Gospel's concerns are the ones that seem to me to be conservative in the right sense: concern for the poor, concern for peace, concern for social harmony." A humanities professor at Johns Hopkins...
...before stood in the corridors, mingling and watching others run back and forth. Frank Moore slipped into the Oval Office at 9:30. Two of the President's speech-writers huddled in a doorway. 'You tell me what's going on,' said one official as he left the West Wing. 'I haven't got the slightest idea what they are doing, and I was just in there...
...preparation for his campaign, Brown has lately increased his overtures to his party's left wing, most of which op posed his support this year of a constitutional convention to write a budget-balancing amendment. Brown has been emphasizing his opposition to nuclear power, and now appears frequently with Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda, two leading activists. Explains one Brown aide: "Jerry has no national constituency, so Hayden and Fonda have offered him a connection to the antiwar, antinuclear crowd, and he's taken...
...Party had never been united by anything but opposition to Gandhi. In recent weeks, disillusionment had grown over the government's failure to enforce a viable economic policy, despite huge food and foreign exchange reserves. In addition, intraparty disputes over the growing power of Jana Sangh, a right-wing Janata faction, had led to widespread defections from the alliance...