Word: backlasher
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...states, both groups recently sought either directly as in the PLO instance, or indirectly, as in the GSA case--to silence their critics. Neither, it seems, has learned a fundamental lesson that groups who preach tolerance cannot be in-tolerant towards opposing views without inviting a dangerous--and intolerant backlash...
...dynamics of public opinion, Mrs. Reagan by this time should be locked in her closet. Instead, she is headed out into the world on her Foster Grandparent program and her promotion of drug rehabilitation. Further, something has happened in the press. The stories have softened. There has been a backlash in favor of the resolute First Lady with the Adolfo pattern. After writing a particularly harsh piece, a Washington Post columnist was deluged with mail expressing outrage-at the columnist, not Mrs. Reagan. George Gallup polled Americans and found her the woman they most admired...
...rings, Tejero posters and even bogus Tejero bank notes. Ironically, the future of Spanish democracy may again be in the hands of officers: the 16 military judges presiding over the court-martial. A lenient sentence would outrage many Spaniards. But a harsh one could provoke a dangerous right-wing backlash - and possibly even another coup attempt...
...overlook the domestic consequences of such a decision because retrenchment al Harvard will encourage a similar retreat at other universities. More ominously, over racism threatens once again to become a respectable feature of American politics and Harvard's capitulation on the South Africa issue can only feed the backlash against our own civil rights movement...
Many West Bankers attribute the new Islamic movement not only to the antileftist backlash but to a more profound disillusionment with aspects of Western culture, such as movies, drinking and the changing relationship between the sexes, that have been imported into the West Bank since 1967. Says Ribhi Abu-Sinanah, dean of Hebron Polytechnic: "The Arab countries have been open to Western culture. This openness has resulted in nothing positive. We have been defeated." In general agreement, an Israeli political scientist remarks: "To some extent this phenomenon is the result of a widespread despair. The Palestinians don't want...