Word: backlash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should not push this point too far. There is much impatience with the war, but it is difficult to say of what nature. Is this impatience strong enough to tolerate prolonged campus disruption, to survive backlash from a "peace without honor," and permit the advocates of withdrawal in Vietnam to become the architects of a new society at home? A negative majority has been emerging in opposition to the war. Whether it will take a positive character and elect more Michael Harringtons remains undetermined...
Although both Procaccino and Marchi have obviously benefited from white backlash, neither is a racist. Further, the white voters whom Lindsay needs are not in the mood to have their consciences addressed. Jews, in particular, feel that for many years they have supported legitimate Negro demands by voting for liberals and financing civil rights causes. It was all very well for Lindsay to be one of the most assertive members of the Kerner Commission and for his aides to take as gospel the commission's key argument: that white racism is at the root of much urban turmoil. Except...
...backlash and indeed the "repression" that liberals and radicals talk about freely have not been nearly as se rious thus far as they might have been. George Wallace, for in stance, did far less well among Northern lower-middle-class whites than had been predicted. A TIME correspondent ex plains part of the reason: "I find the bitterness of these whites so deep, so widespread that I whistle in relief that they are not organized for action. Were they as cohesive as stu dents, as densely packed as ghetto Negroes, there is little rea son to doubt that sullenness would...
...Romantic Backlash...
...leading man retains prominence without a strong and basic sex appeal. Wayne's has been uniquely conservative. "In a love scene, Clark Gable always forced the issue with a girl," observed Director Howard Hawks (Red River). "Wayne is better when the girl is forcing the issue." The romantic backlash has been operating for two generations on audiences?and on his female costars. Says Actress Vera Miles: "They used to say of the old West, 'Men were men and the women were grateful.' Well, that's how he makes you feel as a woman...