Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...substituted a phrase calling for a report to the community "reviewing the status of redress" of student grievances...
...referred to the dead. I came across it in a book, Forging His Chains, by George Bidwell, the American forger who swindled the Bank of England out of $5 million; it was published in 1888 by the Bidwell Publishing Co. of New York and Hartford. Bidwell uses the phrase in such a way that it is obvious that everyone at the time understood "the silent majority" to mean those who were dead. I find this quite hilarious in view of its present usage by the Nixon Administration. Did whoever handed it to the President know of its former meaning? Does...
...renegade liberal in a relatively conservative White House shop, Daniel Patrick Moynihan has never had any illusions that life would be easy. He knew he would be under skeptical scrutiny from both left and right, and so he has been. Yet his love of the provocative phrase and the unorthodox idea is so irrepressible that his numerous memos to the President are the kind of documents that inspire huzzahs of approval or howls of censure, depending upon the perspective of the reader. They also seem to have wide appeal and, unlike most private memos, actually reach millions. Lately, Moynihan...
...Counsellor to the President could not resist the fetching phrase "benign neglect" to describe his notion of the proper attitude the Government should now have toward race relations. Predictably enough, the document caused a sensation. Last week two more of his papers trickled out of the federal bureaucracy. Both were dated just before Richard Nixon was inaugurated as President, but they nevertheless drew fire from both conservatives and liberals and kept Moynihan a foremost topic of national controversy (TIME, March...
...again succumbed to his weakness for the tantalizing phrase, citing the "murderous slum population" as contributing to racial tensions. That kind of talk naturally invites debate. A black activist in St. Louis dismissed Moynihan as an "ivory-tower specialist who never asked blacks about themselves and then used his Ph.D. as an indication of his authority in the academic world." Warner S. Saunders, who works with black youths in Chicago, scoffed at Moynihan as "Nixon's straw boss-the deputy in charge of the colored." The New York Times contended that Moynihan's logic is "a sophisticated rationale...