Word: backlashers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BOSTON. In the beginning, Boston's mayoralty race shaped up as a political donnybrook between archenemies Kevin White and Louise Day Hicks, with Mrs. Hicks, who to many has been the Bella Abzug of the beer and backlash set, expected to be doing most of the punching. In 1967, after having served seven years as Massachusetts secretary of state, White handily defeated Mrs. Hicks for the mayoralty. In 1970, Mrs. Hicks ran for and won ex-Speaker John McCormack's old seat in Congress. By last year White's popularity had slipped so badly that when...
...Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968). To artists nurtured on Duchampian irony, the very idea of the culture-hero, which Picasso embodies, is suspect. The last 15 years have seen a reaction against the cult of expressive personality in art, and Picasso has caught the backlash. He took the virtuoso's role, enlarged it, identified it with himself, and reamed out all its possibilities. Hence nobody else can play it: there is no act left to follow. Picasso's current work means little or nothing to other artists, and no living painters influence...
Both Perkins and Michael L. Gruber '72, who was appointed programming director, said that WHRB had made major changes in the past several years. "But some backlash--a desire to 'hold the line'--was created, and that was the issue in this election," Gruber said
Ever since a militant faction of the Irish Republican Army stepped up its terrorism in Northern Ireland early this summer, a broad-scale Protestant backlash has been building in the British province. Earlier this month, 1,000 former B Specials, the Protestant police auxiliary disbanded on British orders two years ago, met to urge that the group be reorganized and rearmed. A few days later, 20,000 Belfast workers roared their approval of right-wing demands for a Protestant "third force...
Last week Ulster's Prime Minister Brian Faulkner moved to try to bring the backlash under control. First he persuaded the British to remove the 6,000-man limit on the Ulster Defense Regiment, a provincial militia. Then he announced that units of the reorganized regiment will be deployed to rural areas where Protestants have felt unprotected from I.R.A. raiders. The British army, in the meantime, decided to rearm part of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, a predominantly Protestant police force whose arms were replaced with truncheons after the rioting two years...