Word: populists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many who knew him and the millions who watched him from afar, the life of Boston's Richard Cardinal Cushing was a montage of endearing and memorable vignettes. In some of them he was the Populist Prince, handing out miniature liquor bottles at an old folks' home ("Holy water! That's what it is! But don't sprinkle it around. Pour it down!"). In others he was the Court Clown mugging shamelessly in a sailor's hat or a baseball cap. On a cold November day in 1963 he was the nation...
...C.N.O., Zumwalt has effectively applied his philosophical bent-an unusual blend of suave intellectualism in the Maxwell Taylor tradition and a populist disdain for those traditions that demean low-ranking personnel. The result is what the civilian-edited Navy Times calls "an electric feeling throughout the whole Navy." One Zumwalt technique, as at San Diego, has been to visit naval installations to hear out his men. Already he has met with some 30,000 of them. He has also initiated what he calls, a bit stuffily, "retention study groups"-personnel from selected categories who spend a week at the Pentagon...
Then, during the hysteria Senator Joseph McCarthy was generating, Hofstadter in his Age of Reform pointed to some of the early agrarian, Populist roots of McCarthyism-a native, not a foreign blight. He followed with a full-scale study of the history of American anti-intellectualism, and essays on the paranoid style in American politics...
Chiles is by no means a liberal, but he does have a populist tinge about him. He has called for a revamping of the federal social legislation-the most frequent beef of the constituents he met. If he wins it will not be a victory for liberalism, but it will be a major defeat for the Madison Avenue style which elected Richard Nixon...
Finally, Huntington lists additional means whereby the U. S. can ensure the outcome it desires. Among these are support of populist non-communist leaders that undercut NLF support (Peron and Rojas Pinilla are cited as examples), U. S. control over national media, and the use of bribes and "perk-barrel" projects...