Word: populists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...general idea of civic participation--so well invoked by President John F. Kennedy's famous "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" address--kindles our feelings of patriotism, and re-affirms a populist sentiment that the creative powers of the individual can help solve the problems of a society...
Pioneered in the 1950s by Louis Kelso, a San Francisco lawyer and economist, ESOPs were slow to catch on. But Kelso eventually created a fertile financial climate for his idea by enlisting the support of Russell Long, the populist Democrat from Louisiana. Before retiring from the Senate Finance Committee in 1986, Long initiated more than 20 bills to encourage creation of ESOPs...
...generation of yuppies vie to succeed Al Vellucci, their voices sound flatter and harsher than the full declamations Cambridge has come to expect of its last New Deal populist. Like Harvard Square, the City Council is losing its human touch...
Hirsch's explanation of the "theory behind the dictionary," like the controversial educational absolutism of Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind, justifies his imposition of a cultural curriculum on all Americans by staking a populist claim to universal education and patriotism. To Hirsch, it is not enough that all children learn how to read; he believes true functional literacy requires a particular back-ground of factual information, which he proceeds to outline in his 600-page, 23-chapter tome. Despite his protestations against labels of academic elitism, however, his arguments are hardly geared to the masses...
...hike. By sweeping municipal elections in Brazil's major cities last November, the left posed a credible political threat to the government of President Jose Sarney. With nearly a dozen Latin American debtor nations scheduled to hold presidential elections in the next two years, some populist candidates lure voters with promises of radical solutions to break the debt squeeze. Unless the region's scarce capital can be shifted away from foreign- debt payment back into economic growth, the frail bloom of democracy could wither...