Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Part of what is so frightening about this man is the very fact that his ultra-right platform has not just suddenly appeared, but has been growing since the mid-1960s. Yet only recently does it seem to have attracted such attention. That it has gained this recognition today is an unfortunate reflection on the direction in which this country is moving. Buchanan's extremist ideologies are directed toward addressing people's fears and resentments, giving him what New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani termed "a career in which he has by and large been against things...
...putting them back under the pressure of hard times that persist for some workers even in the good times for the stock market. Blue-collar voters, most of them white and male, have been crucial to the G.O.P. coalition since the late 1960s, when they started to abandon the Democrats because of everything called liberalism--meaning, roughly, racial integration plus sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. So long as the economic grievances of those voters were secondary to their distaste for the '60s and its aftermath, the G.O.P. could court them without compromising its pro-business orthodoxies...
...hoopla at Harvard over Wilson's well-publicized defection--and the corresponding gloom at Chicago--is a hallmark of how far black studies has come since its inception during the late 1960s. Back then, even die-hard proponents of the field concede, these programs were more a sop to the angry black students who had just begun to show up in large numbers on white campuses than a serious endeavor--the higher educational equivalent of building swimming pools in the inner city to take the heat out of long, hot summers. Poorly funded and often staffed by barely qualified teachers...
...began by explaining the history of the University's commitment to diversity, saying that it has been present for more than 100 years. Hoyte added that this dedication became formalized in the 1960s, because of pressure from students and the government, and even more so with affirmative action beginning...
Exactly who is supposed to extend this apology? The last Confederate widow died in the 1960s. To be sure, perpetrators of the Jim Crow South will live for decades; is Professor Kilson referring to these men and women? Or am I, as descendant of Southern "slavocrats," supposed to apologize...