Word: dealism
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...overall spending ceiling was set with a so-called "reconciliation" budget package, and startled appropriations czars were told not to exceed the general limit in their 13 specific areas. Combining this victory with his tax cut, Reagan bragged he had finally saved the nation from the cancer of New Dealism and promptly took off for his month-long summer vacation, presumably to get the government off his back for a while...
...Democratic Party may find an opportunity in the next four years to demonstrate the virtues of its old openheartedness when it is practiced in imaginative ways. But if the party merely reverts to a reflexive New Dealism, it may only be an opposition that proves the maxim formulated by the late social theorist Ernest Becker: "A protest without a program is little more than sentimentalism-this is the epitaph of many of the great idealisms...
...virtually unlimited. Its calculations prove beyond reasonable liberal doubt, with the help of former Economic Council Chairman Leon Keyserling and $185 billion of spending, that guaranteed employment and minimum yearly salary could indeed end poverty by 1975. The means: a huge public works program, the apothesis of New Dealism...
...declared himself squarely behind Dwight Eisenhower and Modern Republicanism, faced some vociferous barking from the sideshows during the three-week campaign. Among the barkers: eight-term Congressman Alvin O'Konski, 53, whose campaign manager decided to sell O'Konski's blend of domestic New Dealism and mossbacked foreign policy by television and newspaper spreads "just like you sell a new potato salad" (and brought him in third). Another was Gerald D. Lorge, 35, a "fighting marine" who fought a campaign in Joe McCarthy's image, came in sixth to discover what nearly everyone else realized: even...
...advisers describes Gronchi's politics as New Dealism with a strong admixture of Roman Catholic liberal thought. He believes that to fight Communism, the Christian Democrats must get nearer the working class and present a progressive program which Nenni's fellow travelers would be compelled to support. He has never urged, say his advisers, that Nenni's Socialists be brought into government...