Word: backlasher
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...challenges to the G.O.P. platform positions. To Barry Goldwater, one key issue is the military strength and stance of the U.S. The fairness or unfairness of the press promises to become an issue (see THE PRESS). And an important factor will be the so-far-uncharted effect of the "backlash" against the civil rights revolution...
Conservative Backlash. Inevitably, millions of U.S. Catholics are indifferent to this kind of renewal-the born-and-bred bead-sayers for whom faith is simply a comfortably furnished apartment of the mind. Inevitably, too, there is a "renewal backlash" of Catholics who like the church the way they find it, and look upon its unchanging doctrines and structures as pillars of security in an age of flux. Such ecclesiastical conservatives complain that Mass in English will turn them into "Bapto-Catholics," and look upon the church's denunciation of contraception as a sign of strength rather than rigidity...
...Backlash Sting...
...paragraph example of extremism by Negro Comedian Ray Scott [July 31] is the most revolting, sadistic thing I have ever read. I'm beginning to understand why there will be a "white backlash" in November...
...real truth is that there is no sudden white backlash; it is not new-it has been in existence for more than a hundred years. Goldwater is simply a present-day excuse for opposing equal rights...