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...threatens and cajoles, eager to smoke out Carter from his Oval Office perch and watch the president become human again. Aren't you tired of surrogates carrying the president's message? Aren't you tired of radio and television images? Don't you feel insulted? Some organizers say the backlash vote -- the soft Carter support, the people who aren't too high on Kennedy but wanted to see the president in the flesh--may be high. The real test of the campaign, Kennedy predicts, will come when Carter leaves the White House. In the meantime, Kennedy is studying hard...
...personally, since I can think of more than one issue at a time. The 70s have also seen what I regard as the mot significant cultural development of the decade: namely, the women's movements in all their variety and, at times, short-sighted over-confidence leading to backlash. The women's movements have affected not only the upper educated strata, but have filtered into the rest of the society and have, of course, affected men as well as women, and perhaps in some respects, more than women--not to speak of the children. If we can live through...
...they need to cut back the most. As the Senate last week approved the outlines of a windfall-profits tax on the oil industry, Jimmy Carter was considering a steep new federal tax on retail gasoline. His economists argue passionately for it, but his political advisers worry about a backlash at the polls in November. Illinois Congressman John Anderson, a dark horse Republican presidential candidate, submitted a bill calling for a tax of 50? per gal., with the revenues to be used to chop Social Security taxes approximately in half. That measure would help cut consumption by moving the price...
...government cracks down hard on the protesters, as it did to quell the rioting in Soweto in 1976, it might spark more unrest. Predicts Fred Ferreira, Ford's industrial relations manager: "Inactivity is not going to solve this problem. Whether we get a black or a white backlash is simply a matter of time...
...women's movement took hold, films like Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and Mazursky's An Unmarried Woman went further by trying to spread a new, liberated feminine ideal to a mass audience. Since then, there has been a benign backlash: a series of circumspect films about sensitive, unmarried men. Woody Allen's Manhattan and Bob Fosse's forthcoming All That Jazz are both, in part, self-lacerating accounts of heroes who toy with women to satisfy selfish neurotic needs. Blake Edwards' hit "10" is a touching farce that...