Word: moynihanized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Moynihan, a former Harvard Governmentprofessor, has frequently written on the effectsof poverty
...York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who 20 years ago presciently warned of the breakdown of the black ghetto family, rejected the idea that Democratic programs should be blamed for creating a dependency on Government, which aggravated the underclass crisis. "It has become a belief bordering on prejudice," he said, "that the social ills of the present are the consequence of misguided Democratic social policies of the past two generations. None hold to this belief more guiltily, if furtively, than the Democrats." His party, Moynihan observed, is in "worse shape nationally than since the aftermath of the Civil War." He urged...
...beginning to wrestle with radical approaches like these. Many of the panelists at last week's forum discussed the need to provide jobs, experiment with workfare initiatives and find ways to shape Government programs so that they encourage, rather than discourage, self-help among the underclass. But as Moynihan noted, "We are grievously short of specific ideas." For the Democrats to regain the initiative on what has traditionally been one of their most important issues, the quest to conquer the problems of poverty in America, they will have to find ways to sharpen the ideas that they grappled with...
...question his identity and religion. But he also professes to have tempered his desire to make it to the White House--a desire that dates from his discovery of John F. Kennedy at age 8. One current career ideal is to be an intellectual/politician in the Winston Churchill/Daniel Patrick Moynihan mode...
STOCKMAN CRAWLED up to Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then a Nixon cabinet member, becoming first his babysitter and then his intellectual disciple. Stockman read everything Moynihan wrote, including his private files, and used the Moynihans to get into a seminar journalist David Broder was teaching, who in turn connected Stockman to the John Anderson team in Washington...