Word: politicism
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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...
Nixon could use this opportunity to try to handpick his own 1976 successor, but some political analysts predict he will choose a figure who is "above politic," and who would exit from the political arena at the end of Nixon's terms.