Word: populistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Delacroix's Liberty Guiding the People -- which the Louvre flatly refused to release. Back to the drawing board. But then, in 1981 a new Socialist government headed by Francois Mitterrand came in, and Mitterrand let it be known that the 19th century must begin in 1848, the year of populist revolutions and the collapse of monarchies, in which Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto and the grandeur of French bourgeois culture began to move toward its apogee. Courbet, not Delacroix, would thus be the emblematic figure. As for the end of the 19th century, there was never any doubt about that...
...slashing attack on what he called "corpocracy." By that, Darman said, he meant the tendency of U.S. corporations to become similar to the Government bureaucracies that company executives frequently deplore: "bloated, risk averse, inefficient and unimaginative." Corporate raiders, Darman added, "are gaining attention as a new kind of populist folk hero, taking on not only big corporations but the phenomenon of corpocracy itself...
...strain was palpable, from the Texas oil patch through the heartland cornfields to the Piedmont textile mills. Toss in the problems of Rocky Mountain mining, the timber woes of the Northwest, and despair in the Rust Belt and there was plenty of material for a latter-day rawboned, loudmouthed populist. Thus invited, none came to the party. There was a good deal of personal mudslinging, but of such limited imagination and low quality as to be totally forgettable...
...could have used a Kansan like Mary Elizabeth Lease, a Populist of a century ago who galvanized the nation by exhorting angry farmers to "raise less corn and more hell." The slogan was ready-made this year for Iowa and Illinois, surfeited with corn by farmers who "farm the Government." No takers...
Long, 68, the son of the legendary populist Senator Huey Long, was elected to the Senate in 1948, one day shy of his 30th birthday. But he was not shy about anything when he arrived on the Hill. Ignoring the tradition that new Senators should listen and learn from their elders, he made his first speech * in defense of the filibuster, and he rose to speak no fewer than 469 times in his freshman year. Throughout his career, he would use the filibuster time and again in efforts to block civil rights legislation...