Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the nineties to Nixon...
Your cover story [Aug. 8] implied that U.S. foreign policy could succeed only if Carter adopted the ways and means of Nixon-Ford-Kissinger. In light of recent history, our friends and adversaries might have reason to question the honesty of this past policy...
...recession. No fewer than 90.5 million Americans are now at work. The underclass remains a nucleus of psychological and material destitution despite 20 years of civil rights gains and 13 years of antipoverty programs that were only temporarily slowed, but never really hobbled, during the Nixon era. Tens of billions of dollars are spent every year by the Federal Government, states and cities to eliminate drastic poverty. In addition, special hiring drives, private job-training programs, university scholarships and affirmative-action programs are aimed at aiding the motivated poor. Yet by most of society's measures?job prospects, housing, education...
Guess Who? First there was a secretary to answer the phone. Then there were telephone-answering machines for office and home. Now there are taped messages featuring what sound like the voices of Richard Nixon, John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Marlon Brando, Peter Loire and some 25 other celebrities. "I've temporarily stepped out of the office-you are being taped on a machine guaranteed not to erase," says the voice mimicking Nixon. "Listen, could you make an 18-minute message so I could get those (bleep) off my (bleep)?" Then the voice fades, saying, "I will be back...
...pool shark and the hustler, a language so obscene that it is no longer obscene, with four-letter words so common that they now seem part of the verbal furniture. Is he vulgar? Of course, but not in his own eyes. "Vulgar," he says, "is like Richard Nixon being allowed in Red China. That's very vulgar. That's vile. Vulgar, onstage, is colorful...