Word: backlashers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SINCE THEN, Nixon has been buffeted by the pardon backlash and a "dangerous" case of phlebitis. But he seems not to have changed his plans. Newsweek magazine's "Periscope" section, one of the few reliable "inside dope" columns, reported last week...
Indeed, Sociologist Vern Bengtson of the University of Southern California's Andrus Gerontology Center foresees an "age backlash" in the coming decades, a period
Affirmative action--with the constraints it imposes on hiring procedures--has been less than popular with traditionalists who prefer the older and more informal ways of choosing their university's staff. Campuses are beginning to witness the beginning of a backlash against the equal employment plans...
Leonard says the anti-affirmative action reaction hasn't hit Harvard yet, but adds that "it could happen here." He says the time is right for backlash and that Harvard "must call on its internal strength to resist...
...being fully satisfied. There is no denying that if the minority loses once the issue is put to the test, it will still find the decision hard to accept. But the rights of a minority do not include having others defer to them out of a fear of backlash from their displeasure; backlash is not an argument to be met, but only a conjecture, a caution and a threat. The majority, too, has rights and if, after all the debating and deciding, the trial and the defense, the majority's own sense of the rightness of its case were...