Word: populist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President of Ecuador and youngest elected head of state in South America; in a plane crash that also killed his wife Marta, 39, Defense Minister Marco Subia Martinez, 51, and six others; in the Andes Mountains. A Guayaquil lawyer, Roldos entered the 1978 presidential race as a stand-in populist candidate for his politically prominent uncle-by-marriage (who was ruled ineligible to run) and went on to win a runoff the following year by the largest margin in his nation's history, ending nine years of dictatorship...
ALTHOUGH IT APPEALS to the populist in us all, oral history is basically a lazy man's version of the real thing. It is raw material, not finished product. Studs Terkel, who popularized the discipline, combines a sharp editing style and evocative introductions of his speakers to create a picture larger than the transcripts would offer by themselves. Most importantly, however, Terkel picks the right people, the biggest responsibility of the Oral historian...
...moderate Republican who will join any conservative, liberal, Democrat, G.O.P.er, populist, libertarian or mugwump willing to stop the carnage...
...READILY REMEMBERED that the patriarch Hearst did have a formula, not a bad one at that, and Chaney and Cieply do a fine service in tracing that idea through its subsequent incarnations and devolutions. Hearst started urban dailies at a time of populist politics, and he thrived on these crusades...
...Opposition forces have unified in a broad coalition which includes moderate reformers, parts of the church, and the marxist and populist guerrilla groups...