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...ism whose time has come, or returned; and though no ism lasts too long in America, this one appears likely to have an extended run. At the heart of the movement is the man in the middle. He is squeezed by a system he wants to respect but feels he has no control over. He is the pursuer of the American dream, but stalled in midpassage. To oversimplify, he is self-reliant and reasonably industrious, he holds a steady if not too exciting job, owns and takes pride in a modest home, likes sports, wants his kids...
...cannot help but be angry with a system under which such atrocities were perpetuated, and glad for that system's demise. It is all to the good that the field is now more open, that creative people are no longer so often slaves to the system, to the Mom-ism of a Louis B. Mayer or the sexism of a Harry Cohen. The production head's wife isn't automatically given plum roles any more, and there seem to be more and better opportunities for new, unknown talent, both on and off screen. Writers may more often direct their...
...seems able to embrace anyone and any idea if it looks historically or politically profitable. Few modern leaders have turned themselves about so completely as has Nixon to meet what seems to him the practical demands of the times. Pragmatism, in fact, is fast becoming America's own "ism," an attitude that its defenders would like to exalt to the status of a systematic philosophy...
...50th National 4-H Congress in Chicago, and later to the White House Conference on Aging in Washington, he sounded like the man who had pledged to "bring us together" on the morrow of his 1968 election victory. The youngsters applauded his denunciation of "the insidious bigotry called age-ism," which leaves the young to "plod along in apprenticeship or chafe in alienation" and abandons the old to "draw Social Security, preferably well out of sight." The oldsters cheered his call for "a new national attitude toward aging," which "can end the 'throwaway psychology' " (see following story...
...deadly politicization of our society leads, as politics always does, to the viewing of people in "groups" that must be manipulated through various "social policies." Politics amounts to nothing more than certain groups forcibly imposing regulations and distributing privileges to other groups. Until we re-think this approach, group-ism and racism will be the fruit...