Word: populists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since Exxon intends to stay in a country long after both the present government and its successor are gone, it must get along with any kind of regime, from right-wing dictatorship to left-wing populist to outright Communist (witness its Polish contract). Jamieson keeps on his office coffee table a handsome cigarette box presented to him by the late President Sukarno of Indonesia, a vehement foe of both the U.S. and capitalism. Jamieson notes that he has negotiated directly with the Shah of Iran...
...grass roots populist-like rhetoric of the 'independent' candidates, it was the 'reform' slate that finally opened up the Cambridge schools to all the people...
When election results were tallied, it became evident that some kind of leftist-student victory had been won. Although the police control initiative failed--largely because it didn't get much middle-class black support--two Coalition councilmen (both black lawyers) and a Coalition councilwoman (a self-described "populist radical") squeaked by the large field of candidates, along with Warren Widener, a black mayoral candidate expected to side with the Coalition on nearly all issues except the police initiative. At the Coalition's victory party, Newsweek reported, the exhilarated crowd waved red flags and clenched fists and clapped in rhythms...
...there's another, healthier angle on Merle Haggard, one that places him in the populist tradition of American folk music. A phenomenon like this needs years to take shape, and those two songs aren't much for posterity to leap on. But when one looks at Haggard's life, and some music more representative of him than "Okie" and company, one sees the seeds of a raw, anachronistic ethos, the kind of stuff that twenty years can turn into a romantic mythology...
...Populist Patman was overstating...