Word: chaster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...striking to behold these Harvard social scientists, after really huge operations like the War on Poverty, now trying to save so small a piece of the American political universe as the state of Massachusetts. They have turned to chaster palliatives and can even regard state government- that species of political authority so maligned by liberals- as now the most sensible administrative unit to coordinate an attack on poverty. Perhaps only long residency in a progressive state like Massachusetts could foster such an illusion about states in general. At least for Massachusetts, their analysis often makes excellent good sense, even though...