Word: backlash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences threw in its sordid lot with the apostles of non-violence last night, naming In the Heat of the Night best picture, its star Rod Steiger best actor, and Sterling Silliphant's script best original screenplay. The chief victim of the backlash was Bonnie and Clyde, which for the sensitive members of the Academy conjured up visions of Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown...
...White "backlash" is an important new force in Wisconsin politics. The 1960 census listed 2.4 per cent of the state's population as "non-white." Over 80 per cent of this group is Negro, with 15 per cent Menomonie Indian. Non-whites make up 3.2 per cent of urban areas and 6.7 per cent of central cities. Since 70,000 of the state's Negroes live in such cities, and only 5,000 in the rest of the state, the race issue has not yet confronted many Wisconsinites. One-tenth of the counties have no significant Negro population...
...time the Social Democrats of Germany ackowledged the reformist nature of their politics, and dropped the revolutionary rhetoric, they had lost many moderate supporters. Also, the working classes, disillusoned, turned away from them. They therefore suffered a backlash from both extremes...
...certain what effect these tactics will have on the voters Tuesday. McCarthy and his supporters are hoping a backlash of resentment against the charges will work in their favor, just as the Johnson pledge card effort had done at the beginning of the campaign...
...week's end, such a backlash had begun, at least among party officials. Candidates for five delegate slots, who support President Johnson, issued a statement Friday repudiating the advertisements. Senator Tom McIntyre (D.N.H.), who has also been a chief Johnson backer, disassociated himself from the King statements...