Word: backlashers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Viet Nam War has meaning, dislike of hippies and "experts" with questionnaires, a passionate (and heartening) fear of going into debt, a distrust of the educated, the fancy and the self-important. They also have little patience (like Coles himself) with catch-all locutions: "the Silent Majority," "white backlash," "Middle Americans." Still, the book is very successful in demonstrating that even on the gut issues of prejudice, pocketbook and politics their views have remarkable breadth and subtlety...
...been an Army practice in the past, even though the Green Berets made their reputation by doing just that -along with more dramatic feats of counterinsurgency-in Viet Nam and other underdeveloped nations round the world. But the Berets' luster has been dimmed by scandal, the war backlash and the withdrawal of the last remaining Special Forces units from Viet Nam last February. From a wartime peak strength of 9,000 men, the Green Beret force has been whittled down to 6,000. Consequently, two pressing concerns within the corps have been how to sanitize its image, and what...
Signs of Worry. Next week, when 7,000,000 Italians go to the polls in local elections in Rome, Genoa, Sicily and other areas throughout the country, the M.S.I, is expected to be the beneficiary of a backlash vote in response to the rash of recent disorders. Not that the neo-Fascists are about to take over city hall-anywhere. Their hopes lie rather in denying a majority to the Christian Democrats and their coalition partners, forcing the party instead to look to the right to form coalitions. The Christian Democrats insist that they will never team up with...
...when they are talking about bang-bang and the whites are talking about rat-tat-tat-tat-tat and boom-boom-boom." One of the most powerful arguments that black leaders quite properly use to discourage rioting is that violence would only bring about a renewed right-wing backlash, cancel much of the move toward moderation that was evident in last November's elections, and divert attention from the call for social reform to the demand for law-and-order...
...American International Pictures. His company has deserted the previously profitable motorcycle and horror genres in favor of remakes of Les Miserables, A Tale of Two Cities and Camille. All three are fit fare for the family trade. Arkoff is not alone in his judgment that there is a backlash against explicit sex on film. Even freewheeling New York City Distributor Donald S. Rugoff admits to hesitation over an R rating. "I never bought a film before with ratings in mind," he says, "but I do now. The hassle just isn't worth...