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Congresswoman Hicks is something of a legend in her own time. She made a name for herself in the 1960s, when she became the spokesman for the white backlash movement against integrating schools. Hicks has always had her own special constituency in Boston, usually about 40 per cent of the electorate. Running in multi-candidate races, as she did to get elected to the School Committee and later the City Council, she was unbeatable, for her 40 per cent always turned out, and always voted Hicks. In two-candidate races, such as her two campaigns for the Boston Mayoralty...
Maybe, say the experts, McGovern's frontal assault on the scandals will touch a well of slumbering outrage. But his stridency contains its own backlash. His charge that the Nixon Administration is the most corrupt in the Republic's history is dubious. But something is iridescently wrong there. This Administration's record will, one suspects, find its historical place in the rather short line of federal manipulation and political skulduggery, big and small, that burgeoned with Ulysses Grant. The gold, whisky and railroad manipulations in the unsuspecting Grant's time besmirched his reputation for a century...
Like any movement that has touched an important social nerve, Women's Liberation has developed its own backlash. Declaring that "As the family goes, so goes the nation," Mrs. J.J. Jaboe last November formed the International Anti-Women's Liberation League in California. Today the league claims 15,000 members nationwide and has just established its Midwest chapter. Its principal work now is aimed at defeating the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution...
Also I suspect that we may be getting some of the same kind of backlash among Jewish voters that we saw earlier among white voters in general when efforts were made to deal with the problems of poverty and the problems of blacks. But as we move toward the election, those Jewish voters who have traditionally voted for the Democratic nominee will start coming home again...
...Women's Lib rhetoric getting out of of hand? Yes, says the movement's founder Betty Friedan. In the August McCall's, she insists that "female chauvinist boors" are trying to "elevate women as a separate class" and that this "threatens backlash among women even more than men." Singling out Gloria Steinem for having referred to marriage as "prostitution," Ms. Friedan protests "the assumption that no woman would ever want to go to bed with a man if she didn't need to sell her body for bread or a mink coat. Does this mean that...