Word: backlashers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your Oct. 15 account of what you call "Episcopalian Backlash" at the 64th General Convention of the Episcopal Church troubles me. Your reportage of the facts is not untrue, but your interpretation of those facts seems perverse. Because, as you saw it, "the Episcopalians abruptly applied the brakes to innovation" at Louisville, you assume that this is a lapse into conservatism. Many of us regard it as a rise to responsibility...
Price and Orren agreed that the low voter turnout in the cities indicated a lack of confidence in government among the people. Both said they saw no indications of backlash against the Republican Party in these local elections...
Despite the fact that Democrats out-number Republicans by three to one in Maryland, Agnew easily beat Mahoney in that election. But the Ted Agnew who captured the governorship of Maryland on a wave of backlash against segregation was a far cry from the Spiro Agnew who would emerge on the national scene two years later to accept the vice presidential nomination from Richard Nixon...
...American Jewish Congress, on behalf of several male academics, filed several charges this year with HEW of "reverse-discrimination." In December, Stanley Pottinger, director of the Office for Civil Rights under HEW, said that the affirmative action efforts for women and minorities were "losing ground" to a growing rhetorical backlash from male faculty members and administrators...
...Replay. At first the election looked like a rerun of 1969. Once again, Bradley, now 55, faced Incumbent Mayor Sam Yorty, 63. Once again, Yorty played on white fears. Once again, there were predictions of a last-minute backlash that would throw the election to Yorty. But this time the backlash did not develop, and Bradley defeated Yorty by a surprising...