Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is even more the case with respect to the violence at home. The summer of 1967 came in the aftermath of one of the most extraordinary periods of liberal legislation, liberal electoral victories, and the liberal dominance of the media of public opinion that we have ever experienced. This was moreover accompanied by the greatest economic expansion in human history. And to top it all, some of the worst violence of all occurred in Detroit, a city with one of the most liberal and successful administrations in the nation; a city further, in which it might generally be agreed...
...With respect to the first point, we have been too long prisoners of the rhetoric that Republicans don't know anything about the social problems of the nation, or in any event don't really care...
...With respect to proposition two, Potomac fever became a liberal disease under the New Deal, of course, and it has turned out not only to be catching, but to be congenital, having somehow worked into the gene structure itself. The syndrome derives from one fact and two theories. I shall argue that the fact is correct but irrelevant, and that the theories are wrong...
...first theory involved is that the national government and national politics is the primary source of liberal social innovation, especially with respect to problems of urbanization and industrialization. I do not believe history will support this notion. The fact of the matter is that it has been from the cities and to a lesser extent the State governments that something like a preponderance of social programs have come in the twentieth century, for the most part, of course, cities and states of the North. There are many reasons for this, of which probably the most important is that until recently...
...become America's top vocal combo. Such hits as Rag Mop, Sentimental Me and The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane sold 25 million records (despite the titles), and the brothers were well on their way to their first million dollars. But in every other respect, recalls Ed, "it was a very unrewarding, uncreative life. At 30, I found everything stagnant and saw nothing in the future but a repetition of well-paid nothingness...