Word: paternalisme
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The Platform Committee was chaired by Wisconsin's Representative Melvin Laird, himself an unannounced Goldwater backer. It struck out against costly, deficit-creating federal paternalism in a way that went well beyond the 1960 Republican platform. It approved a platform of conservatism in the word's dictionary sense...
Certainly David Riesman is America's best critic and, of course, an American critic must be a critic of our middle class. Upper-middle brows like to swat the middle-class with back issues of the New Republic, and Paul Goodman castigates the masses with vindictive paternalism. Riesman is less...
"But we do want to encourage community development and to shake them out of their apathy," she said. "For years the government has been helping the Indians do almost everything, but perpetual paternalism can't develop self-reliance and initiative. We want to encourage the Indians to realize that they...
At Cornell, Brown and Columbia, paternalism rules. Social regulations on the Ithaca campus are Byzantine in their complexity, and are enforced by an equally impenetrable student bureaucracy. Visiting hours end late--3 a.m. is the outer limit on some Saturday nights--but due to rules requiring open doors and burning...
Died. Oliver Hazard Perry La Farge, 61, author, anthropologist and a descendant of the Founding Fathers, who devoted his life to the plight of the American Indian, eloquently presenting it first in his 1929 novel, Laughing Boy, then as longtime head of the Association on Indian Affairs, lobbying ceaselessly to...