Word: rightnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...energy war. The people here on East Biddle Street can help me. Do you agree?" The crowd roared its support. Predicting that similar solar units would eventually be" put on homes all over America, Carter asked: "There's no way for them to embargo the sunshine, right?" Again, the audience shouted its agreement...
Unite Protestant fundamentalists and Catholic ethnics into a political bloc by emphasizing emotional "family" issues? "A year or two ago nothing was happening," says Paul Weyrich, 36, a former TV reporter who leads another right-wing organization. "Now we're moving...
Brash young leaders with small offices and big dreams-these are the centurions of the movement that claims the title of America's New Right. Its general goals, a drastic reduction in domestic government activity and a hard anti-Communist line abroad, are familiar enough. So is its rhetoric. But the New Right has developed some fresh, effective tactics. It scored a few surprising electoral upsets last year, and now it smells blood...
Conservatives who succeeded in nominating Senator Barry Goldwater for President 15 years ago sought power through control of the Republican Party. In the mid-'70s, there was a feeble effort to unite diverse factions into a national conservative party. Today's New Right has different priorities. It stresses 1) the creation of coalitions among special interest groups, 2) support or opposition on specific legislation and 3) concentration on Senate and House seats that can be won. Says William Rusher, publisher of National Review and an admiring expert on the movement: "These are the first conservative groups that really...
...right, however, is a page from the Crimson's Confidential Guide to Courses at Harvard-Radcliffe for 1979-1980. As you can see, it's a bit more interesting than the course catalogue, and a lot more informative. The Confi Guide tells you what a course is about, how well it is taught, how difficult it is, and how worthwhile it is. Better still, the Confi Guide is written by students who have lived through the courses, not the administration or the faculty. It's like having 100 upperclassmen advisers...