Word: backlashers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WAIT A MINUTE. Charles Bronson? My friends and I used to go to Charles Bronson movies, every one, in bouts of cynicism when rejecting the most oppressive and sick manifestations of mainstream American culture carried too many bad associations with it and became too tiring to handle. A hippie backlash. It seemed like the only thing to do was tank up and join the fray. Bronson was surely one of the heavies: his chunk figure was the perfect vehicle for the fascist, amoral tactics he used to smash rival crooks, fight mercenary struggles, snare women by ignoring them. It wasn...
...that spirit, works of love and efforts at virtue still come from church and synagogue. If today there is some backlash against grand-scale attempts by religious leaders to tie sacred texts to particular social policies-as often occurred during the demonstrations and churchly pronouncements in the battle for civil rights and during Viet Nam War dissent-in thousands of local situations religious people are putting their faith to work. In this way, they and their nonreligious allies may be regaining confidence for larger moral ventures by starting close to home, serving the aged, the hooked, the alienated, the lonely...
Heavy Prodding. Last June, Northrop Chief Executive Thomas V. Jones promised to turn over to the subcommittee the names of its Government guests, then had second thoughts, possibly because it realized the backlash it risked. So instead of sending the list to the Senate, Northrop turned it over to the Pentagon, which began a series of investigations. But the months ground on without the Senators hearing anything further on the matter...
Schiess's decision to accuse her bishop of sex discrimination through secular channels is likely to do the women's cause little good within the church, and it could well create a backlash. Many delegates to next year's convention, like St. Paul in / Corinthians 6:1, may take a dim view of filing a suit against a Christian "brother...
...exact role of the Communists in the two incidents is unclear. Last week António Dias Lourenço, editor of the Communist newspaper Avante, denied that the party was behind the República takeover. But there are already signs of a backlash against the Communists in the heavily Catholic north, where gun battles between conservative and left-wing elements have been reported. In addition, troops were called into one village to restore order after a left-wing politician shot his way out of a mob armed with shotguns, whips and hoes...