Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your article on the conservative trend in American politics has revealed a basic-and unpleasant-side of human nature. When the average citizen achieves a socio-economic plateau that he has long been striving for, the first thing he often does is try to deny that level to those immediately below him on the scale. This tendency is evident today as many blue-collar union workers support George Wallace in a desperate attempt to deprive the Negro and Puerto Rican of the same benefits they now enjoy. These newly self-appointed guardians of the status quo would do well...
...give the impression that any troop reduction would be "in the normal course of events" and would therefore reflect no credit on the Democrats. The Administration quickly denied that any such reduction was envisioned. The U.S., said Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, is still building up to its authorized level of 549,500, and "we intend to continue...
...politically inspired exchange left in doubt the question of the U.S. troop level and of the course of the war it self. Clifford issued his denial of Laird's statement only at the President's orders. Pentagon officers naturally supported the Defense Secretary's statements. Yet other Administration sources suspect that both Laird and Humphrey may well be correct in their predictions that U.S. combat forces will be reduced...
...nation's mood, that the commission's long-range proposals for social and economic programs at the federal level will soon be enacted on anything near the scale recommended. The report has provoked intense interest and prompted reforms in some areas; in many, it has been largely ignored. Mayor John Reading of Oakland, Calif., even accuses the Kerner commission of being partly responsible for the militants' takeover of Oakland's black leadership. "Permissiveness will do us in," says Reading, "and the Kerner answer was permissiveness." To this, New York Mayor John Lindsay, who was vice chairman...
Anyone who has ever taken a lower level Gen Ed or departmental course in Social Science can attest to the first two points through personal experience. Any student who has gotten back a paper without a single comment save a "B" at the end can guess at the validity of the third point...