Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thompson somehow lived up to his brash self-advertisements, in part because he was able to reflect the dark and roiling energies of young America. As early as 1964, he saw Ronald Reagan as "the prototype of the new mythological American...who will probably someday be President." One year earlier he noticed that Richard Nixon was indestructible, "a vengeful Zero with nine lives." Thompson, in fact, was that loneliest of creatures, an idealist without illusions, ready to kowtow to no one and as contemptuous of beatniks and hippies as of the "rotarians" they rebelled against. Surveying the 1960s like...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Christian Coalition has tapped two naturals to follow Ralph Reed: Randy Tate, a 1994 Gingrich House soldier, will replace Reed as director, and former Reagan Cabinet member Don Hodel will assume Pat Robertson's post as president. The message: to thine own self be true. "The last shred of the non-partisan fig leaf has been destroyed," says TIME's Laurence Barrett. "Both of these guys are even more partisan, and more explicitly so, than Reed." Putting Reed's torch in such hands suggests the coalition is ready to concentrate on its natural constituency -- white, Protestant, conservative...
Although Xers tend to be more liberal and Democratic than the general population--53% voted for President Clinton, vs. 34% for Bob Dole--12 years of growing up under Reagan and Bush imbued them with a distrust of government. "The do-it-yourself, no-one-is-going-to-look-out-for-me-but-me spirit among Xers is a product of coming of age when that was the message coming from the Administration," says Mia von Sadovsky, 29, an ad-agency researcher. "We have hard-wired into us a different approach to getting things done." A survey by Third Millennium...
...points to Madison, Washington, Edmund Burke, John C. Calhoun and Ronald Reagan as political figures he admires...
Since the Reagan Administration's landmark report, A Nation at Risk, sounded the alarm in 1983, schools have been under constant pressure to help all students learn more, premised on the notion that whatever we asked of students in the past will not be sufficient for them or the country in the future...