Word: backlasher
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...American Jewish Congress, on behalf of several male academics, filed several charges this year with HEW of "reverse-discrimination." In December, Stanley Pottinger, director of the Office for Civil Rights under HEW, said that the affirmative action efforts for women and minorities were "losing ground" to a growing rhetorical backlash from male faculty members and administrators...
...Replay. At first the election looked like a rerun of 1969. Once again, Bradley, now 55, faced Incumbent Mayor Sam Yorty, 63. Once again, Yorty played on white fears. Once again, there were predictions of a last-minute backlash that would throw the election to Yorty. But this time the backlash did not develop, and Bradley defeated Yorty by a surprising...
Some believe that boredom with Watergate may set in, or that the affair may result in a sympathy backlash for the President among people who may come to feel he is being hounded. But many observers see the damage of Watergate not only to Nixon but to the nation in another way. They fear that even without impeachment, the President's authority could be badly diminished and that he would have a difficult time governing-or leading...
...There is going to be a severe backlash against the sordid press McCarthyism and intellectual punksterism of those who sought so mindlessly to tear down a great President, a great office and a great nation." The Dallas Morning News chided "zealous communicators hot on the trail of Watergate" for ignoring the principle that innocence must be presumed until guilt is proved...
...eroticism challenged and frightened the Freudian orthodoxy. Unlike Freud, Reich believed that mankind could build its civilizations without discontent. He tried to reconcile psychoanalysis and Marxism and made enemies on both sides. He postulated far-reaching theories on the nature and function of orgasm and suffered in the Victorian backlash...