Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Take a drive out of Manhattan, first east, then south, and in about an hour you arrive at one of the most pleasing monuments to activist government to be found in America: Jones Beach, a magnificent ocean park built on a sandbar off the south shore of Long Island. Jones Beach opened 65 years ago, Governor Franklin Roosevelt of New York presiding. But the idea had erupted full blown from the mind of that public-works genius and master builder, Robert Moses. A few years earlier, arriving by boat on that desolate stretch of sand, he sketched on the back...
...recent years, faith in activist government has declined precipitously. The cause is not just Vietnam and Watergate but rather the fateful turn liberal activism took with Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society. Not content with the great middle-class programs like Medicare, Johnson launched a War on Poverty that has since poured trillions down a vast federal sinkhole, leaving little trace -- indeed coinciding with a dramatic rise in crime, homelessness and deviancy of every sort...
Bill Clinton's genius in the 1992 campaign was understanding the abiding power of the idea of activist government -- activism directed not, however, at the fringes of society but at the great middle that keeps it going. He campaigned for the "forgotten middle class." Forgotten, one might note, by modern liberalism. No matter. Clinton remembered...
...also can't do much to encourage bipartisanship that Democrats are suspicious about the fairness of Kenneth Starr, the successor to Whitewater special prosecutor Robert Fiske, who has a long history as a Republican activist. Their doubts were heightened by news reports that Judge David B. Sentelle, one of the panel of three judges who chose Starr, had recently been lunching with North Carolina Republican Senator Lauch Faircloth, one of Fiske's harshest critics. Though Sentelle says he and Faircloth never discussed Fiske, Democratic House whip David Bonior suggested last week that their meeting "should be a subject of investigation...
...third year, the all-day festival featured two stages, nine bands, and an array of vendors and activist group. The line-up for the main or "Mondo" stake was Sheryl Crow, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Blues Traveler and the Allman Brothers Band. In between each of these acts were performances on the smaller "Gonzo" stage by Cycomotogoat, Ugly Americans, Little Sister, Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies and Raging Slab. The festival has evolved and grown considerably since its inception, most likely due to the increased involvement of record companies who see the tour as a promotional tool...