Word: populists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Johnson was shaped and shadowed for life by the hill country of Texas. To him, the world was just Johnson City grown big. He shared the prairie populist notion of mid-America that a wicked "they"-usually Wall Street or scheming foreign diplomats-were insidiously taking control. For most of Johnson's political life, "they" were the Communists. He was baffled by and suspicious of Eastern intellectuals and especially Harvard men. A story he told and always with loud laughter was that when he had gathered his top men in the Cabinet room there were Rhodes scholars, men from...
Oberlin football team had gone winless in eight games the season before he arrived, had an obvious rejoinder: "How can we destroy sports with a record like that? We have nowhere to go but up." Describing himself as a "radical populist," Scott insists that his aim is not to de-emphasize but to "democratize" sports. In an odd non sequitur, he adds: "What no one realizes is that I voted for Barry Goldwater in 1964, and read Ayn Rand...
...Great Society will surely take off again four or eight years from now," said Adam Yarmolinsky, a member of the Institute of Politics, who served on Johnson's anti-poverty task force. "He was the heir of the New Deal with a populist twist...
Trudeau's fate, in short, is at the mercy of Canada's socialist-minded New Democratic Party. The October election reduced the Liberal representation in the 264-member House of Commons from 146 to 109. The Progressive Conservative Party won 107 seats, the Quebec-based populist Social Credit Party took 15, and independents have two. The remaining 31 seats-and the balance of power-belong to the N.D.P., led by shrewd former Labor Lawyer David Lewis. As long as the N.D.P. supports Trudeau on key votes, his government will survive and another election will be delayed...
...Populist Mechanics: Demystifying Your Car") offered women some defenses against chauvinistic (or crooked) auto repairmen. An excerpt from Ingrid Bengis' recently published Combat in the Erogenous Zone movingly portrayed one woman's growing rage at men's sexual imperiousness. Author Simone de Beauvoir, whose The Second Sex inaugurated much feminist debate 23 years ago, revealed her waning faith in socialism as a means of gaining rights for women...