Word: backlashers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...said, should call a national conference to extricate the country from its "economic morass." The attractiveness of the economic issue is obvious. One can be accused of excessive partisanship for criticizing the President's foreign policy. To attack the Administration for provoking domestic unrest is to risk a backlash from those weary of dissent. Appealing to the voters' bankbook is never dangerous. The President understands this well. He believes one of the reasons he lost the 1960 election was that the Republicans had allowed the economy to slow down. But he remains convinced that he can control...
Whatever Young's decision, it will have repercussions beyond U.C.L.A. Firing Angela Davis may well trigger trouble at some of U.C.'s more combustible campuses such as Berkeley and Santa Barbara. Keeping her may well cause a backlash in the June primary election, when California voters will be asked to approve a $246 million bond issue for a badly needed health sciences complex at U.C.L.A. "I like my job," says Chancellor Young, who gets $41,000 a year. "I can't think of anything I'd rather do." But unless he finds a way to please...
Says Watson: "I want people to think. Humor without anger is nothing." But anger with humor can be devastating. As Godfrey Cambridge puts it: "I hope the backlash doesn't mean that some of my good white liberal friends are going to buy me back...
Poussaint said yesterday that Agnew was "playing racist-type politics" in an "appeal to backlash-not just conservative backlash but moderate backlash...
...president of the National Confederation of American Ethnic Groups, which says it represents 18 million foreign-born and first-and second-generation Americans, expressed the especially virulent outrage of the poorer Middle Americans. "The professional liberals let the genie out of the bottle?racial hatred, lawlessness," says Deac. The backlash today is not so much against blacks per se as against black militancy and the white intellectuals: "The Moratorium was a stab in the back to our boys on the firing lines. Our families don't have long-haired brats?they'd tear the hair off them. Our boys...