Word: nixonians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...More than Necessary. While the President reaffirmed his belief that the Brown decision "was right in both constitutional and human terms," he emphasized that he does not intend to press any harder toward desegregation than the Supreme Court requires. In a characteristic bit of Nixonian philosophy, he observed: "If we are to be realists, we must recognize that in a free society there are limits to the amount of coercion that can reasonably be used...
...long time, Nixon deliberately avoided raising any rhetorical pennants; he did not coin his own equivalent of the "New Frontier" or the "Great Society." Lately, he has settled upon the doctrine of a New Federalism-a formula that embodies the Nixonian ideal of power diffused downward to state and local authorities. The notion is not so different from the New Left's "Power to the People!"-except that Nixon has different people in mind. And unlike some participatory democrats, the President would keep the states and localities on a long, loose but authoritative federal leash...
...holding a formal banquet in honor of the Wyeths, topped by a reception at which the 200-odd guests will be entertained by Pianist Rudolf Serkin in the white and gold splendors of the East Room, where 22 of Wyeth's paintings will be on display. In the Nixonian view, artists in the past have been invited to the White House, as it were, to sing for their supper at a party for someone else. Under the new dispensation, the supper will be given to honor the artist himself. Nixon gave Duke Ellington a 70th birthday party last spring...
...indignation, Spock is engagingly oldfashioned. He is by no means a total permissivist. The closer he gets to home, the more Spock embraces a traditional, family-centered morality that a Nixonian nation would approve. Stubbornly, if apologetically, he condemns the plague of pornography. The battle for some reasonable enlightenment has been won, he says, but "now it is mainly writers, artists and producers with little discernible artistic or social integrity who are leading the assault on standards." Members of Women's Liberation (Küche, Kinder und Karate) will pulverize a few more practice bricks when they read Spock...
...Nixonian court jester may well be Red Skelton. Last week, in the first of a series of "Evenings at the White House," Skelton gave the VIP-studded audience the kind of entertainment that has made him a sort of cultural hero to Nixon's generation. After all the belly laughs were over ("I played golf today and shot a 72; tomorrow I'm going to play the second hole"), Skelton displayed an old trouper's feel for his audience by dramatically reciting the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag amid a reverential hush...