Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Horowitz said the New Left philosophy starts from the idea that "we all live under an oppressive regime, ruled by an alien power, the Ruling Class." This belief, he said, leads to the assumption that "if you're decent and believe in human progress, you must be at war with the oppressive power, which is called the `patriarchy' or `institutional racism' today...
...explained his theory that modern American society, having killed off its greatest heroes--John F. Kennedy '40, Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert F. Kennedy '48--needs something new, to draw us together: a "heroic idea...
...brought the idea to baseball administrators, and won funding for the project from both the MLB and the Major League Baseball Players' Association...
...those who objected to natural drainage, Corbett argued that cities had been built around that concept for centuries before modern techniques came in. As for financing, Corbett finally got help from a small local bank by not telling it about all the ecology business. The only major idea that had to be dropped was a plan to recycle sewage through underground pipes to nourish the orchards. The public health department refused to bend...
...have the Linda Tripp grand jury in Maryland. You have Julie Hiatt Steele. You have the whole Kathleen Willey situation. You have the President's possible civil and criminal liabilities. You have the various investigations into Ken Starr. You have Webb Hubbell's tax evasion..." You have the idea...