Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vision of the future. The irony lies heavy from the first chapter. Milan is referred to as "the natural shelter for all American, German and Swiss capital drawn by the stability of our currency." The "I" of the book, a secretary of Fanfani (the former head of the Christian Democrat party) who decides to write the history of the "compromise" finds it "impossible to view with indifference the achievement of a sixteenth subway line, which, together with eleven elevated highways and twelve helicopter pads, has finally brought fluidity to the traffic of our metropolis." Some miracle has cleary occurred...
...over race, drugs, sex, Viet Nam, Watergate and recession, voters are seeking some kind of normality. "There is a hunger to get away from crisis, stridency, hysteria, a rejection of any kind of extremism," reports TIME'S public opinion analyst Daniel Yankelovich. Agrees Alan Baron, a liberal Washington Democrat: "This country wants an overall amnesty. Everybody wants to rest." To Frank Mankiewicz, a director of George McGovern's emotional campaign in 1972, the attitude toward Government now is "not so much like 'Bring us together' as it is 'Leave us alone...
...Mondale's view on the presidency appeared in its May issue along with essays like "69 Far-Out Ways to Turn On a Woman" and the "Erotic Diary of a Nympho Cheerleader." Battiato conceded that "we goofed," but there was no turning away the wrath of the Minnesota Democrat. Insisting that McKay had sold the excerpt without his permission, Mondale refused the $150 fee offered by Genesis and filed suit against his publisher for "appropriate" damages...
...believe that a literally balanced federal budget is possible. Reagan has also sought advice from Murray Weidenbaum, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Nixon, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists and a moderate who finds the difference between Ford and Reagan "modest" compared to any Democrat...
Kukrit, who heads the right-of-cen-ter Social Action Party, lost to his older brother-and political enemy-Seni Pramoj, 70, leader of the conservative Democrat Party. The Democrats swept all 28 National Assembly seats in Bangkok-including Kukrit's-and won 114 nationwide. Three military-backed parties agreed to join the Democrats in forming a Cabinet, which means that Seni will control at least 206 of the 279 seats in Parliament...