Word: populists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Obviously, foreign aid has always been a necessary instrument of U.S. policy. But it has rarely worked when it was used blatantly, or when the U.S. policymakers cast themselves, in the words of Wellesley Soviet Specialist Marshall Goldman, "as super-Platonic wise men." Sociologist David Reisman worries about "populist diplomacy à la William Jennings Bryan and Woodrow Wilson" with its admixture of evangelism...
...balance, spotted in a speech written by Joe Califano a reference to the "public airwaves." Johnson pencilled in "the public's airwaves," a change in emphasis so sensitive that the next day every major broadcast lobbyist had nervously called Califano to see whether this heralded some dangerous new populist policy at the White House...
...people at the school. Ex-freshman dean and new Summer School director F. Skiddy von Stade Jr. '37 announces that he hopes to rescue the school with the addition of a rigorous program in polo. "I see this as a democratic program well suited to the school's populist tradition," von Stade explains...
...Carter is fond of quoting Danish Theologian Soren Kierkegaard that "every man is an exception," a view that certainly fits him. He has been described with a catalogue of contradictions: liberal, moderate, conservative, compassionate, ruthless, soft, tough, a charlatan, a true believer, a defender of the status quo, a populist Hamlet...
...come full circle. As 1976 draws to an end, traders are once more looking ahead with rising confidence, buoyed by a growing conviction that President-elect Jimmy Carter can put zip into the lagging economy. Before the election, Wall Street nervously regarded the Democratic candidate as a big-spending populist, but it has been won over in recent weeks by Carter's appointment of political moderates to top Administration posts. Says Reynolds Securities, Inc. Vice President Robert Stovall: "'There's a growing chance that Carter might give us a market equal to that of the first year...