Word: consensus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That view will be vastly different from the one that Johnson beheld twelve short months ago. Then, riding the tide of an unprecedented victory at the polls, the President looked around and saw a nation ripe for his brand of consensus politics. Then he had something to offer almost everyone-voting rights for the Negro, a tax cut for the wage earner, continued prosperity for business. Since then, the nation's problems have grown more complex and the solutions less easy. Where once compromise and cajolery worked, many hard choices are now required-choices that could alienate some elements...
...parts of the U.S. despite the real gains brought by such legislation as the Voting Rights Act and the poverty program. The big cities are in need of imaginative renewal if they are to remain livable. There are chinks in the President's all-embracing and long-enduring consensus that could widen into cracks before year's end. Under prodding to hold the line on prices, the business community is growing restless and resentful...
...real action is elsewhere, in the seething ghettoes beyond legislation. It would be a shame, however, if no one bothered to leave the trenches long enough to argue with the New Right. Maybe, just maybe, this curious agreement about "individual dignity" could be expanded into a little, ad hoc Consensus...
...magazine's dowdy Greenwich Village office. Typically acerbic articles are in the works on the federal antipoverty program, the State Department, Latin American land reform and the Viet Nam war, a special worry of Storrow's. "It is no time for government by consensus," he declares. "That tends to turn into government by apathy or government by automation, where anything can go unquestioned...
...today's youthful nihilism is undoubtedly much less alarming than it seems. Whatever political causes the apolitical American young managed to find before have virtually disappeared-hence the concentration on the few remaining ones, such as civil rights and Viet Nam. Among the young bored by prosperity and consensus government, some observers discern a special group, the "New Puritans," who may be toting a protest placard alongside an anti-everything beatnik, but with an entirely different altitude inside...