Word: politicalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sir / In one respect, we Americans differ little from our 17th century Puritan forebears. We continue to believe in the efficacy of witch hunts of grandiose proportions for excising the evil from among us. They may provide a needed catharsis, may even have a mild deterrent effect; but when will...
Flak From Friends. Even the industry's former best friends in Washington now find it politic to make anti-oil noises. House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills, who opened hearings on oil taxes last week, says he has told oilmen that they receive unwarranted special preferences. The Nixon Administration...
For example, there were the Ramona Para brigades. Ramona Para was a Chilean worker killed during an earlier period of social unrest, and the brigades were groups of Communists, mostly workers, who went around painting murals in the cheapest paint they could buy because that way it cost them less...
America has a bad ache in its body politic. Nobody is sure whether the cause will fade away, linger on for three years, be drastically removed by a blunt legal instrument called impeachment, or yield to the less painful therapy of resignation. In the midst of such uncertainties, a measure...
Belfrage, like Kubek and McCarthy, views a world of villains and heroes. Until recently, and certainly during the fifties, it was easier to sympathize with the Belfrages. There was a civil war going on then, and for some men, including Belfrage, it took courage to speak out. It was easy...