Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flattened out and the middle class began losing ground. That dissonance helped to create Ronald Reagan. Americans bought the Reagan solution: cut welfare programs, or at least slow their rate of increase, to strengthen defense and give people more to spend through tax cuts. Says Daniel Yankelovich, the public opinion analyst: "They were uneasy about doing so because they suspected that millions of poor people would get hurt, but they accepted the Reagan approach because they agreed that something was badly amiss with the liberal theory of Government-backed entitlements. But Reagan's personal 'goodness' seemed to guarantee that...
...interested in the irony of the dissenting opinion of Martha A. Bridegam, Sean C. Griffin, Jonathan M. Moses and email E. Parker in the March 24 Crimson...
...talked a great deal, in a way that at times made you think of a childlike rabbi or sweet, mysteriously innocent old Russian priest and at others times reminded you of an elderly archeologist in his comfortable classroom, musing and harking back...He pretended to enjoy the official opinion of the court, that he might be mad. 'I am the Rock,' he said thoughtfully, nodding. 'I am Captain Marvel...
CONGRATULATIONS TO the man whose opinion piece in The Crimson last week lobbed cheap shots at the Women's Studies concentration Harvard will begin next year. After that accomplishment the author broadened his superficial, bombastic attack, arguing that women cannot claim any distinctive intellectual contributions to society...
...most civil liberties groups believe the crusade does not have the potential to radicalize government policy or public opinion. "There is increased agitation," admits Jeff Levi, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, "but I don't see it getting anywhere." Many leaders of the New Right, however, are determined to make AIDS an issue that could eclipse abortion as a conservative litmus test for campaigners. "There is a current moving out there that politicians will have to respond to," says Weyrich. Warns Jeffrey Bell, an adviser to Congressman Jack Kemp: "Anyone advocating the American Civil Liberties...