Word: backlashers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Federal Government's program to enforce equal hiring and promotion opportunities for women and minorities on college faculties is "losing ground" to a growing rhetorical backlash from male faculty members and administrators, the director of the Office for Civil Rights said Wednesday...
...smashed, the walls were covered with aerosol-can graffiti; typewriters, books and some 600 paintings were simply stolen. Now that the full extent of the damage has been revealed ($2,280,000 worth, by the Government's reckoning), moderate Indian leaders are outraged and fearful of a backlash that could hurt the entire Indian movement. But it was not only the young militants who debased the old traditions. Anxious to bring the whole shabby episode to an end with as little fuss as possible, the Administration hastily collected $66,650 in "expense money" from various agencies, sent the wampum...
...what began Maggie Smith's defeat. During it, her opponent managed to make her age, 74, a campaign issue for the first time. This fall Democratic Challenger William Hathaway, a four-term Congressman, shrewdly avoided direct attacks on Mrs. Smith's age to prevent a sympathetic backlash, but played up his own age, 48, and his vigor. Another factor: Hathaway, a liberal of the Muskie stripe, had prepared for this election by maintaining high visibility. His 6 ft. 3 in. figure was seen everywhere around the state, and his flair for publicity got him frequent radio and newspaper...
Congresswoman Hicks is something of a legend in her own time. She made a name for herself in the 1960s, when she became the spokesman for the white backlash movement against integrating schools. Hicks has always had her own special constituency in Boston, usually about 40 per cent of the electorate. Running in multi-candidate races, as she did to get elected to the School Committee and later the City Council, she was unbeatable, for her 40 per cent always turned out, and always voted Hicks. In two-candidate races, such as her two campaigns for the Boston Mayoralty...
Maybe, say the experts, McGovern's frontal assault on the scandals will touch a well of slumbering outrage. But his stridency contains its own backlash. His charge that the Nixon Administration is the most corrupt in the Republic's history is dubious. But something is iridescently wrong there. This Administration's record will, one suspects, find its historical place in the rather short line of federal manipulation and political skulduggery, big and small, that burgeoned with Ulysses Grant. The gold, whisky and railroad manipulations in the unsuspecting Grant's time besmirched his reputation for a century...