Word: populists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feisty populist was elected Governor in Mississippi. Attorney General William Allain, a Democrat, took 56% of the vote to Republican Landowner Leon Bramlett's 39%. But in the end, Allain's positions on utility regulation and education reforms were obscured by a flurry of lurid charges: two weeks before the election, Bramlett supporters trotted out a pair of young black men, both transvestites, who claimed to have been paid 20 times by Allain for sexual services. A polygraph test commissioned by the Jackson Clarion-Ledger buttressed the hustlers' allegations. Allain, 55 and divorced, called the charges "damnable...
...coup three years ago, implicitly urged support for another candidate, retired General Turgut Sunalp, whose Nationalist Democracy Party was supposed to mop up Turkey's heavy right-wing vote. Instead, Sunalp's party straggled in a poor third with 23% of the vote, behind the moderate leftist Populist Party, which scored...
...more-populist image has persisted even in recent years. During the turmoil of the late '60s, Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey '28 sent club-wielding cops into University Hall to end the student takeover. Yale head Kingman Brewster avoided violence by stating at a press conference that Black Panthers probably could nto get a fair trial in the United States. Current Harvard President Bok has a reputation for distance from the undergraduates and political priggishness. Giamatti holds office hours and has publically denounced the Moral Majority...
...haziness of Flynn's political leanings are defined by the term "urban populist," as he would like us to have it. But the many essential contradictions in his politics and a track record of indecisiveness on social and economic issues indicate more a willingness to follow the polls than to shape them...
Instead of the barracks, Alfonsin chose to enter law school in La Plata, where he first became active in the progressive Radical Civic Union Party. He was drawn to the party by its populist orientation and historic opposition to Argentina's landed oligarchy. After marrying his childhood sweetheart, Alfonsin began his career as a lawyer in Chascomus. He ran successfully for the provincial legislature in La Plata, then for the National Congress...