Word: critics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks, he has stretched himself terribly thin to hold together his disparate coalition of support. It reaches from the conservative South through the industrial North, and Carter's politics of reconciliation often leads him into telling various factions what he thinks will best keep them with him. One critic has labeled him Everyman-the candidate who needs everyone's vote. In the debates, all these factions will be listening together and Carter will have to address them as one constituency...
...says Duke University Historian Anne Firor Scott, "a Southern woman could get away with an awful lot." A young Georgia-born woman-now a writer in New York-recalls her mother drumming into her head: "Do, but don't be seen doing." Says Molly Haskell, a Manhattan movie critic who was raised in Virginia, "One day one of my teachers said to us, 'Women rule the world.' But it was supposed to be a secret...
...doubt about the Southern woman: she was a Jezebel. In fact, the traditional problem is not rebellion but "niceness," or what Journalist Florence King calls "the compulsive need to be sweet." A Southern woman is obliged to smooth over all social irritations with good manners and a smile. Literary Critic Josephine Hendin, writing about the late Georgia Novelist Flannery O'Connor, speaks of a Southern "politeness that engulfs every other emotion." "No matter how bad an evening has been," says Atlanta Psychiatrist Alfred Messer, a native of New Jersey, "Southern women never fail...
Holcombe was an outspoken critic of the non-posting of available dining hall jobs, which he said permitted favoritism on the part of some managers and discrimination against black and minority workers. The new contract would require the posting of all available jobs for seven days prior to their being filled...
...difficulty in diagnosing pathological narcissism is that the whole culture has turned in a narcissistic direction. Social Critic Tom Wolfe calls the '70s the "Me decade." Author Peter Marin describes the swing away from social concerns toward development of the self as "the new narcissism." Marin cites therapists as part of the problem: "The trend in therapy is toward the deification of the isolated self...