Word: populists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those freewheeling good times are distant now. His health is good, his career robust, but Vidal seems like a lion in winter. He feels that the populist causes he fought for all his life died with Lyndon Johnson. He is confident that Bush will lose the election, largely because of his stand on abortion, but he despairs of Bill Clinton's shaking up the economy sufficiently or reversing the incursions on civil liberties and women's rights made in the name of family sanctity by what he calls the Party of God, consisting mostly of Republicans, but Democrats as well...
Waugh could also be extraordinarily generous, both in praise for writers he admired -- most notably, Graham Greene -- and in discreet gifts to agencies of the Roman Catholic Church, which he had entered in 1930. In the end, though, he felt abandoned even by Catholicism. Pained by the populist liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council, Waugh discreetly asked a clerical friend, the Jesuit writer Martin D'Arcy, whether he might be excused from attending Sunday Mass. The answer was a firm but sympathetic...
...American art -- do open a door for Johnson's entry into that history, even though Powell's claim that Johnson was a kind of black Marsden ; Hartley, discovering full identification with his people through folk culture, passing from a "narrow and skewed" Eurocentric primitivism to a fully integrated "black, populist aesthetic," seems overblown. What matters, however, is that he once was lost, and now is found...
...former Skull and Bones member and son of a millionaire had a hard time convincing me of his populist mentality. But Bush's message was popular because he was preying on the pop-culture image of Harvard as a 350-year-old conspiracy against the ordinary person. "You can always tell a Harvard man." read a sign on my Yale brother's door, "but you can't tell him much...
...term and that the overly progressive Henry Wallace had to be dumped from the ticket. In the proverbial smoke-filled rooms at the Chicago convention, with Roosevelt paying little heed from afar, they decided that the reliable Senator from Missouri -- an honest man of bright gray hues | and appealing populist pugnacity -- was best suited to be the next President...