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By 1968, that annus horribilis when Johnson cracked from the pressure of mediating an increasingly centripetal Democratic Party and Kennedy fell to an assassin's bullet, two political ideal-types had solidified: a "silent majority" who supported Johnson's war on Vietnam and voted in Richard Nixon, and a "new class" of liberal professionals and youth who supported Johnson's war on poverty but detested everything Richard Nixon represented.
Since Cockburn cracked wise in 1982, the news business--especially the TV news business--has grown more aggressive and competitive.
On CNN's Capital Gang , Al Hunt of the Wall Street Journal cracked that "Bush was a little bit Clintonian, flying back from Michigan to feel the pain."
In 1839 the Chinese government finally cracked down on this drain on the treasury, which was also causing mass addiction among the Chinese.
In one, the teen-age Stevens writes a dead-on Stevensian description of a motley village band--"the piping of flamboyant flutes, the wriggling of shrieking fifes with rasping dagger-voices, the sighing of bass-viols, drums that beat and rattle, the crescendo of cracked trombones."