Word: daleyisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coalition under McCarthyite the Rev. Joseph Duffey is concentrating on re-electing Ribicoff in '68 (hated by the old guard after his anti-Daley Chicago speech), on lobbying for a progressive legislative program in '69, and taking on Dodd in '70. They are furiously building a grass-roots organization...
...Angeles Times' political editor, Carl Greenberg, intoned that "when newsmen are slugged, clubbed, arrested and generally harassed in the performances of their duties, we are approaching the end of freedom." Daley swung back with a so-called "white paper" (see THE NATION). There would have been no trouble at all, he insisted, if reporters and TV cameras had not been on hand to provide the demonstrators with an audience. As for newspaper coverage, Daley said, it was biased...
Losing Relevance. Of course, some of it was biased. Since there was no question that the police were singling out reporters and photographers for rough treatment, it was hardly surprising that some of them felt more sympathy for the attacked than the attackers. And, in a way, Daley was right about the presence of TV cameras having an effect on what happened. As New York Magazine Writer Sophy Burnham pointed out last week, the presence of TV cameras and lights changes the mood and attitude of people before them, much as "a girl undressing is quite aware...
...riots were entirely different from uprisings in the ghettos. Those were spontaneous, disorganized, racial. Chicago, in fact, was a formal, prearranged confrontation between the Old and New Politics. Central Casting could have produced no better field marshal for the Old Politics army. Like some 18th century European general, Mayor Daley chose the place of battle, formed his battalions, set his lines of defense, and established his criteria for defeat or victory: there would be no disturbances in the streets of Chicago. The leftist youth leaders-Tom Hayden, David Dillinger, Jerry Rubin-drew up their counterstrategy and took the field, determined...
...what did the victory mean, and what will it bring? Will it inspire advocates of the New Politics-young, rebellious and impatient for change-to greater battles and more broken heads? Will it solidify the silent masses of settled, older Americans into rigid and angry resistance? Mayor Daley's mail count, despite press objections to his tactics, is running 20 to 1 in his favor...