Word: backlasher
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...support Hart for two separate though complementary reasons. His platform on a wide range of issues shows he is not content to take the facile route of traditional New Deal liberalism or to embrace the cynical neo-conservative backlash. Hart is, quite simply, too intelligent to embrace the well-meaning but unrealistic proposals of Mondale and McGovern. But, unlike Glenn, he does not believe that the Democrats should try to regain the White House by becoming milk toast Republicans. We also support Hart because he is now the only man who can send Reagan back to his ranch for good...
...course, hardcore is not the first movement in rock whose message broke away from the musical tradition it perpetuated. The punk movement, for instance, was essentially a backlash against the free love and peace spirit of the hippie era. Yet, the punks use a traditional rock format (albeit in a much harsher, angrier form than that of the 60s) as their instrument in fighting the rock music of the 60s and 70s. The punk movement may have started as a rebellion against the falseness of the decaying ideas of the hippie revolution. But by the 80s, the slashed haircuts...
...Clarence A. Pendleton and the other Reagan appointees to the U.S. Civil Rights commission have said that affirmative action for minorities and women denies certain whites their constitutional rights. They also claim that it has caused a backlash of hostility...
...this country's elite colleges and lucrative professions. Although the past 20 years have witnessed the arrival of a Black Supreme Court Justice, Black mayors, and a Black astronaut, Black representation in the medical profession has only increased by a paltry half a percentage point since 1950. White backlash in the face of such statistics seems unjustified. Furthermore, a recently released study by the National Urban League confirms beliefs that whites and Blacks have not benefitted equally from the economy's ups and downs. While Reagan takes credit for an overall decrease in unemployment to 11.2 percent, Black unemployment...
...Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment, which offers a fresh approach to the battle of the sexes. Written with wit, style, and no small degree of social insight, this important book significantly challenges popular beliefs about the women's movement and the current anti-feminist "backlash...