Word: populists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Average rental price of a similar suit for Washington dignitaries: $42. The new President has no head for toppers. Nancy has a new mink in the closet, but may forgo it in favor of a Republican cloth coat. The Reagans' attire will be a considerable departure from the populist style of the Carters. For his Inauguration, Jimmy Carter wore a $175 suit he had bought off the rack a week before, which was consistent with his announced desire to de-emphasize the pomp of the White House...
...resurgence of a populist censorial spirit has, in a sense, sneaked up on the nation. National attention has focused on a few notorious censorship cases, such as the book-banning crusade that exploded into life-threatening violence in Kanawha County. W. Va., in 1974. But most kindred episodes that have been cropping up all over have remained localized and obscure...
...state and federal regulations has been erected to protect small banks around the country by keeping out their big-city brothers. The origin of the geographic restrictions goes back to the 1830s, when Andrew Jackson was fighting Nicholas Biddle over the charter of the Bank of the United States. Populist politicians have always fought nationwide banking on the grounds that small-town financial decisions should be made locally. Smaller banks also claim they would be run out of business if large banks from New York, Chicago or San Francisco were permitted to compete with them. As a result...
...meant to be read aloud," he says. "I'm a troubadour, a village taleteller. I'm the guy at the end of the bar or in the shadows of the campfire." In the past decade, he has become a kind of Woody Guthrie of fiction, a conservative populist who believes the myths he creates. And his audience rides with him, attracted to simple writing about simple times...
...part, the market's glow reflects a conviction in the business community that happy times will return with the incoming Administration. Says Felix Rohatyn, a partner in the influential Lazard Freres investment-banking firm: "Reagan is a businessman's populist. Under the Carter Administration, they considered themselves the whipping boys, overregulated and over-Naderized. Now they all see a better climate coming...