Word: movement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Significantly, the principal movements that have emerged in the past decade have tended to coalesce around ideas, not leaders: the women's movement, the environmental movement, the fitness movement, for example. Those who participate seem to be too independent, too critical, too wary of the dangers of leadership to entrust themselves to others. The cautionary examples of cults?the followers of Sun Myung Moon or Jim Jones?merely confirm the wary in their independence...
...leader" in the sense, for instance, that F.D.R. was, like him or loathe him. There is no American leader of anything like the stature or potential influence of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Now there are a lot of mini-leaders. Irving Kristol is the acknowledged godfather of the [neoconservative] movement. But he probably couldn't persuade a Boy Scout troop to make a right turn, even if you gave him quadraphonic sound. So in that sense he's not a leader...
KENNETH CLARK, educator: There are no transcendent leaders, but on a lower level there is Gloria Steinem, an articulate and thoughtful representative of the women's movement. Andy Young has stirred up controversy; if you're not getting into trouble, you're not breaking new ground or asking people to rethink old notions...
FRANCES FITZGERALD, writer (Fire in the Lake): Barry Commoner, Ralph Nader and Cesar Chavez are possibilities. Nader and Chavez are leaders on a grand scale. Their thinking is original and they have the ability to make things happen. It is characteristic of American society today that the antiwar movement, women's movement, antinukes have a collective leadership...
GLORIA STEINEM, editor and feminist organizer: Bella Abzug and Andrew Young are the only two leaders of our time who have successfully transposed social movements into the electoral system. Cesar Chavez and Carolyn Reed [director of the National Committee on Household Employment] have redefined work and taken forward the movement to organize the lowest, least paid in the working force. And John Kenneth Galbraith is almost the only link between economic knowledge and the public...