Word: populists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wizard or Oz. Contrary to popular belief, this wonderful film is much more than a fantasy for children. Based on the Oz books written around the turn of the century by Populist publicist L. Frank Baum, "The Wizard of Oz" is actually a paean to Rooseveltian progressivism. The Land of Oz, where "we get up at noon, go to work at two we're done, jolly good fun," is actually the world's most advanced welfare state. The lushness of the make-believe countryside, filmed in a beautiful early attempt at color, contrasts starkly with the monochromatic depression reality...
Earth Gimble, the host, is a preternatural populist. Under a blond tuft of mustache, he sports the same smug smile for everyone, turning it off only when his sidekick, Jerry Hubbard, ventures beyond the bounds of propriety, Fern-wood-style. Gimble, played by Martin Mull, 33, is the best Lear character since Archie Bunker, and Hubbard (Fred Willard, 33), the dumber-than-dumb Edith Bunker of this most odd couple, is not far behind. Any comparison to Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon is, of course, purely intentional...
...second downfall two years later was the result of his dogged opposition to Mao's radical programs. These included turning over the universities to workers, peasants and soldiers and transferring scientific research from the laboratories tp the communes. Defending the Academy of Science from Mao's populist incursions, Teng declared in 1975 that "it is not an academy of cabbage; it is not an academy of beans; it is an academy that deals with science." Teng asserted that even the bourgeois scientist can make a contribution. In his earthy way, he argued that "it is better to allow...
...marched out at the time of Nixon, Cambodia, and Gulf in Angola, with the April 1969 bust and Kent State in between. What comes as a surprise is that the novel, The Shad Treatment, is about the mud and blood of a Virginia governor's race in the classic populist-versus-conservative mold, and that it's good...
...novel revolves around two ill-concealed politicians closely drawn from a recent Virginia campaign: MacIlwain Evans, a 26-year-old political operative whose family is deeply entrenched in the Virginia aristocracy, and his chosen boss and candidate, Thomas Jefferson Shadwell. Shadwell is a fiery populist state senator from the Virginia backwoods who first fought the conservative regular Democrats and is now waging his campaign for governor with a rhetoric that rings just short of a call to revolution...