Word: abm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speaks to an older Broadway audience, demanding that they search beneath the pounds of Hair to find an inner beauty in a world they've made unbeautiful. Abroad, it tells the world to bold on a hit longer: America is not just creeping imperialism, Cadillacs, ABM's. astronauts, anger, endless payment, pizza parlors, perversity of life, and too many Vietnams. It is the antithesis of all that is today as well. And Hair though long since avant-garde, somehow legitimizes for youth a life style of free-loving peace and freedom no less wanting in Nixon's Middle American regime...
...students of American History might recall that progressives and conservatives have frequently crossed purposes. Fitzhugh treated slavery as advanced socialism in 1854; Margaret Chase Smith's liberal abstention cleared the way for ABM development in 1969. Daniel Boorstin is no exception. His latest book, ostensibly a critical defense of the established order, provides a radical with material for a scathing indictment of this order. The author makes a value judgment, but, for??nately, he has not allowed his opinions to color the pages of research and insights he has compiled...
...program is more sacred than the general principle that inflation must be fought with Government austerity. Second, Nixon saw an opportunity to assert authority in a personal way. In his first year's dealings with Congress, the President suffered the Haynsworth defeat and the close call on the ABM. Now he has gone to the people and he has made a crucial veto stick. Congress may be more chary in the future about challenging him. For a time, at least, Nixon has won the right to dictate a federal agenda according to his own priorities...