Word: anties
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meet Thomas Wolfe, anti-Semite. An early skit begins, "Enter two Jews, arm in arm, gesticulating and exhorting each other loudly. Each bears a money bag in his free hand." The Jews say, "to be bank, to de bank, to de bank." Even as late as 1935 he believed that "the Nazis were simply exhibiting what he considered normal hostility toward the Jews...
...That anti-Government mood prepared the way for Reaganomics and drove a wedge between the poor and the middle class. Americans in the middle detected something askew in the Government's social policies. Reagan played upon the middle-class intuition that some basic unfairness was loose in the garden of the dream. (Reagan was wise enough to know that the dream existed still and needed tending...
...vote of 52 to 48, narrowly defeated an attempt to cut off the $40 million remaining of a $100 million aid package appropriated to the contras last year. "This is no Administration victory," warned Majority Leader Robert Byrd. "This is an alarm bell." Coming one week after an anti-contra House vote on the $40 million, the close Senate vote reaffirmed that Congress is in no mood to humor President Reagan by approving more money for the rebels. The Administration had been cautiously planning to stall until next fall on its request for $105 million in new contra aid. Last...
...principle of free speech, we affirm that all viewpoints should be heard as the debate over justice in South Africa continues. Accordingly the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee this week invited Mr. Kent-Brown to participate in debate with a speaker from the African National Congress, a leader of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, during his visit here. Mr. Kent-Brown's hosts, the members of the Conservative Club, publicly heaped scorn upon this offer and refused to arrange for the debate to take place...
When a Princeton historian wanted to research the influence of anti-Communist sentiment on academic hiring during the 1950s, most of the nation's universities opened their archives to the scholar. Harvard...