Word: nixonian
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...from an elegant dinner of pompano at a restaurant in Coral Gables, Fla., paused next to a customer who was deliberating over various expensive meats on the menu, and advised: "It's patriotic to eat fish." A few days later, Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns amplified on the Nixonian diet. "I think it would be a good idea," declared Burns, "if we had a meatless day once a week." His suggestion: buy more cheese...
This was true enough last Spring. It is more true now. PALC and Afro set the terms of student protest last year, and the antiwar movement--spurred by some coincidental Nixonian outrages--joined in. Since then, PALC's leaders have scattered and Harvard Afro has turned its attention to internal matters...
...PLETHORA OF reporting and analysis concerning the Nixon Administration's attack on First Amendment rights seems almost incestuous because of the vested interests of the media. The press should be so diligent on other issues of equal import. Yet, the media's persistence in challenging the Nixonian ill-regard for the First Amendment grows out of an endemic responsibility to safeguard the public. Self-righteous as it sometimes appears, this feeling is deep-seated throughout the print and broadcast industry. Examples have been abundant of late. Half a dozen newsmen have chosen to go to jail rather than violate confidential...
...willingness to seize that opportunity, says Economist Walter Heller, "represents its best opportunity to go down in history on the economic front as a constructive leadership." The President would be opening a front at a point that most economists, both liberal and conservative, believe is ripe for a Nixonian counterrevolution...
...attempt a strike that was doomed from the outset. Some of us, recalling the apocalyptic days of 1970, thought perhaps World War III was coming. Richard Nixon knew better, though, or so he told the Associated Press. Perhaps we knew better, too, because we had seen so many Nixonian aberrations go by the American people and the rest of the world, and we were still here, intact...