Word: machismo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mexico, they have to a certain extent a valid excuse. In response to their country's tumultuous past, wrote Poet Octavio Paz in Labyrinth of Solitude, Mexicans have erected elaborate psychological "masks" to shield themselves from a world that they "regard instinctively to be dangerous." One such mask is machismo, the image...
...still imprisoned by the need for machismo," Freidan said, adding that playing the role of constant supporter has added greater pressures to men's lives...
...most vulgar side of American free capitalism is your desire to show off your free capital," Wyllie said, charging that the American obsession with cars is a "new machismo...
Congressmen and Senators of both parties were upset. Said a Democratic congressional leader: "The wholesale resignations smack of p.r. gimmickry, misplaced machismo. I thought that he had his ship pointed in the right direction, but..." Said House Republican Leader John Rhodes: "It's crazy. It's just like what Richard Nixon did in "72." Others were upset about the targets of Carter's purge. Said Democratic Congressman Charles Wilson of Texas: "Good grief! They're cutting down the biggest trees and keeping the monkeys...
Every time in the past couple of decades that a President has felt compelled to demonstrate to the world how tough he was we have been dragged deeper into trouble. A major cause of the Viet Nam involvement was Jack Kennedy's concern about machismo, and then Lyndon Johnson's determination to show that Texans did not back away from fights...