Word: populists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overlaid, now and then, with a sharp erotic curiosity. Instead of the irony of a '60s Warhol or Lichtenstein, one is treated to an unremitting earnestness, a moral concern with the voids between people and the circumspectness of their gestures. It is a somber sight, this "populist art," as one of Segal's admirers dubbed it; and it gives a special density to the retrospective of 100 works by Segal that is on display at Manhattan's Whitney Museum...
Khomeini is a philosopher-theologian, and a brilliant one. He is also a populist who writes political tracts, has an earthy sense of justice and strong opinions about private property, reasonable food prices and the availability of water and electricity. He detests the Pahlavi dynasty and everything the Shahs stood for. He hates foreign influence, especially from the Americans. He is anti-Soviet. He has always advised the Iranian masses to shun Communism. He said earlier this year that he would never collaborate with the Marxists. His view: "We know they would stab us in the back...
...first" politics, it took great courage for President Carter to exercise his authority to decontrol the price of oil. However, his plan to nullify the good effects of price decontrol by imposing a "windfall profits" tax on the oil companies is an ill-considered act of misguided Populist sentiment. We're the Nobil Corporation, and we're in the business of discovering, pumping, refining, shipping and selling oil, so you can believe us when we tell you that "windfall profits" aren't for our benefit, they're for yours...
...gaze of soldiers posted to ward off violence, 1.6 million Ecuadorians went to the polls last week for the first time in eleven years to select the leaders of their small (pop. 7.5 million) Andean country. Their choice for President: Jaime Roldós Aguilera, 38, a mild-mannered populist lawyer who won by a smashing 2-to-l ratio, despite a strong right-wing effort on behalf of his conservative opponent, former Quito Mayor Sixto Durán Ball...
Ecuador's return to democracy was closely watched in Bolivia and Peru, which also plan elections to replace military juntas. For a time, it seemed the vote in Ecuador might never take place. Fearing that Roldós, a protégé of Asaad Bucaram, an abrasive populist who founded the Concentration of Popular Forces Party (C.F.P.), would follow up his first-place finish in last summer's preliminary balloting with a victory, the military men who have ruled Ecuador since 1972 delayed the runoff for more than six months. That allowed the conservatives who opposed Rold...