Word: moynihan
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Daniel P. Moynihan, professor of Government, campaigned yesterday in the New York cities of Binghamton, Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo on behalf of presidential hopeful Senator Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash...
...foreign affairs, says Moynihan, there is something almost Orwellian about the transformation of the word liberal to mean the opposite of what it meant a decade or so ago. John Kennedy's inaugural address, which declared that the U.S. would defend freedom around the globe, was celebrated at the time. Now liberals oppose intervention...
...Liberals make sure to insulate themselves from all these drastic social changes," he went on, "but they expect the masses to make them work. It's so intolerant. In their eyes, if you're not a cultural liberal, then you're not a political liberal." Moynihan himself once had liberal credentials but now is considered something of a renegade...
...Retreat. It is not an easy time to be a liberal. The criticism, like Pat Moynihan's, is fierce. Today liberals are in retreat, or, as Social Scientist Moynihan puts it, fading back into the culture. They are unmoored and fragmented, a variegated group that has traditionally coalesced around a strong leader and a compelling cause-and now has neither. None of the presidential candidates stirs them the way past heroes like Adlai Stevenson or Eugene McCarthy did. No issue even faintly matches the emotion of their stand against the Viet Nam War. On top of that, they...
Succeeding the pyrotechnic Pat Moynihan as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, patrician William Scranton described himself as an "enthusiastic supporter" of his predecessor, but "not the same kind of person." Last week, in his maiden appearance, Scranton proved the two alike in at least one respect. By the time a Security Council Middle East debate had ended, the man who was a Nixon troubleshooter in the Middle East in 1968 and put the word evenhanded into the lexicon of U.S. Arab-Israeli diplomacy, had, like Moynihan, provided surprises for everybody, including Secretary of State Henry Kissinger...