Word: populist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, was enacted to protect the public from irresponsible banks like those that invested depositors' savings in highly speculative securities prior to the Great Crash of 1929. As a result, the separation of commercial and investment-banking functions by Glass-Steagall still has tremendous populist appeal. But in official Washington, as Fed Chairman Volcker put it in Senate testimony last January, opposition to giving commercial banks access to the investment-banking area "is almost entirely limited to investment houses now with the field to themselves...
Will the current furor weaken the evangelical movement, which has gained enormous impact and visibility over the past two decades? Sociologist James Davison Hunter of the University of Virginia thinks not. "It is very much a populist movement that derives its strength from the vision of reality it holds and an expansive set of institutions which sustain that vision," he observes. "The TV ministry is a small part of this. A visible part, but a small part...
These themes are being stressed by Democratic candidates, including Gary Hart, Bruce Babbitt, Joseph Biden, Richard Gephardt and Jesse Jackson. "When Rhodes scholars are arrested for insider trading, that contributes to this populist sentiment that a privileged class is getting rich at the expense of the rest of the economy," Babbitt says. Like most Democratic candidates, Babbitt is careful to focus his attacks on Wall Street and Big Business, as opposed to entrepreneurial and family businesses...
Reagan's election in 1980 was less a new starting point than the cresting of a conservative-populist movement that began with Richard Nixon's election in 1968. That year, the Middle American constituency struck back against the activist '60s -- against antiwar protesters, against the civil rights movement and the sexual revolution, against high taxes, Government regulation, the Washington elite, the Woodstock generation. George Wallace was in full cry against "pointy-headed intellectuals." The Nixon-Agnew ticket swept into power. Watergate brought Gerald Ford's brief period of consolidation and then the anomaly of Jimmy Carter, who came to Washington...
...more than a little sketchy, as does the alliance that binds together the likes of the streetwise urchin Gavroche (Braden Danner) and the idealistic student Marius (David Bryant), the lover of the grownup Cosette (Judy Kuhn). This lack of ideology may enhance the show's appeal: it taps generalized populist sentiment without bogging down in debate...