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...physical confrontation" of McNamara in back of Quincy House seems to have provoked a "courtesy backlash" here at Harvard. As one who was himself present, let me try to state the minority position...
Cultural Leftover. If anything could kill the look on campus, of course, it would be the news that adults are doing it too. West German Playboy Gunter Sachs, it was noted, married Brigitte Bardot in Las Vegas last summer with his socks off, and already there are signs of backlash. "Socklessness is a cultural leftover," fumes one Princetonian. Sock sales are even rising in some areas. Still, as the first snowstorms swirled across the Midwest last week the purists were standing fast. "If I could get a pair of lined desert boots," said one, thinking onward in Wisconsin, "maybe...
Instead, the major issue may prove to be the largely unspoken but undeniable reaction of many white Americans against the Negro's gains and demands in the civil rights movement, an emotion-charged response encompassed by the catchall phrase "white backlash." A recent Republican poll shows that more than half the U.S. electorate feels that the Democratic Administration has moved too fast on civil rights; equally significant, some 60% of all Negroes acknowledge that their cause has been damaged by recent rioting and black-power militance. The race issue endangers liberals of both parties-a fact, ironically enough, that...
...police force, ran roughshod over their front lawns. Mayor Daley did everything within his power to prevent the open housing demonstrations, but he and the other Democrats are somehow being held accountable for the "White Humiliation" these people feel they suffered at the hands of Civil Rights marchers. The backlash is even a factor down state. In one all-white down-state county, a member of Stevenson's staff was forced to listen to a 15 minute tirade by an old lady on how the Negro is lowering the standard of morality...
...impact of the backlash has been apparent in recent straw polls taken by the Chicago Sun Times. The brunt of it, however, will probably be shouldered by Senator Douglas -- and it may defeat him -- rather than Stevenson. Even in Mayor Daley's own 11th Ward, where Douglas has proviously rolled up 78 per cent of the vote, he polled only 51 per cent. In the same poll, however, Stevenson got 68 per cent. In general Stevenson holds a comfortable 10 per cent margin over Howe while Douglas trails Percy by about 15 per cent. Stevenson will win; the only question...