Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have a pat answer, notably more money for bigger and better jails. But in New York City the first priority should be a speedy court system, with more judges, trained administrators and computerized calendar control. Beyond that, New York is only the latest flash point of a nationwide revolt against "correction" systems that are basically relics of 18th century penology. Without reforms, the U.S. will increasingly confront anarchy inside the prison walls-and outside on the streets...
Seymour Marin Lipset, professor of Government and Social Relations, who has written extensively on student revolt, said last night, "Basically, this means the activist stage of student protest is over...
Cities like Sacramento, Calif., and Columbus have followed the example of towns and suburbs by rejecting school-funding proposals. The revolt is most dramatic in Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Oregon and California, but few states have been spared. Six years ago, bond issues for new schools enjoyed a 73% success rate at the polls across the nation. In 1969, the figure fell...
...only place he has a chance to win. The taxpayer, just as impotent, and forced to keep paying for things he abhors, is throwing his weight around in the only arena where it has any effect. Janet Wells, president of Scarsdale's League of Women Voters, explained the revolt in words that could have come from any young rebel: "The budget defeats represented a feeling of desperation, a feeling that somehow things are getting out of hand but no one can do anything about...
...American electorate balks at social revolution, it has an extremely high tolerance for liberal economic measures. Here is where the Democrats roll up their majorities. Galbraith should have warned the party to exploit this advantage to the full, chiefly with the issue of tax reform. The tax revolt of the laboring class, their dissatisfaction with their own so-called affluence, rates as a central phenomenon in American politics. If the Democrats come out loudly for tax reform and force Congress to look to the top income groups for revenue, it will remain the spiritual home of the American working class...