Word: connorism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such celebrity diners as Actor Carroll O'Connor, owner and occasional piano player at the Ginger Man, and cigar-puffing George Burns are willing to conform. "I'll do whatever the city wants," says O'Connor stoically. Debbie Parker, a ban supporter who has a water pistol emblazoned with the words STOP OR I'LL SHOOT, says, "Smokers have had a lack of consideration for others for a long time. Now the tables are turned." The Beverly Hills police -- famed for their vigilance in cracking down on jaywalking, illegal parking and attempted burglary -- are so far going slowly. They have...
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Byron R. White, Sandra Day O'Connor and Antonin Scalia joined Powell's opinion...
...disputes that Demjanjuk was drafted into the Soviet army in 1940, captured in the Crimea by the Germans in May 1942 and sent to a prisoner-of- war camp in Chelm, Poland. From there the trail becomes murky. According to Defense Attorney Mark O'Connor, Demjanjuk was then transferred to the pro- Nazi, anti-Communist Ukrainian National Liberation Army, and after the war was put in a displaced-persons camp. When he secured a visa to enter the U.S. in 1951, he concealed his military record and claimed to have spent the war years as a forced laborer...
Violent racism is dead. A generation ago, Birmingham's chief of police, Bull Connor, was sending dogs out to attack Blacks. Nowadays, the law--if not all the people--are on the side of Blacks. Powerless, frustrated whites hurling rocks at protesters in Forsyth is not evidence of the return of Connorism. Cummings, Georgia is not symbolic of the racism that exists in American today. Racism's current incarnation is as hidden as it is persistent...
...church service in Atlanta honoring King, Secretary of State George Shultz said, "He redeemed the country he loved." Other speakers stoutly argued that such redemption is not yet at hand. "Certainly things have improved over 20 years ago," said Richard Arrington, the black mayor of Birmingham, where Bull Connor once ruled the streets with his attack dogs and fire hoses. "But in the past seven or eight years racial progress has been at a standstill, and I'm inclined to say in a slight retreat...