Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turn. It spoke quietly. It expressed no overwhelming preference for a personality or a party. But it acted coolly, picking and choosing among candidates for high office and low. And it laid to rest some phantoms that had threatened to haunt the Republic and the two-party system for years. Yet the nation denied Richard Nixon the really massive "mandate to govern" he had pleaded for. In fact, the vote was in many ways a reflection of the divisions that have been tormenting the country all year...
...that the "rednecks" he bragged about were sufficiently numerous or widely enough distributed to people a national movement (see following story). Thus the prospects of his American Independent Party now seem far less bullish than they did just a few weeks ago. Conversely, the future of the two-party system seems more secure...
Social Remedies. At the same time, the Republicans, even with their man in the White House, still have a long way to go to establish themselves as a strong, full partner in the two-party system. This they failed to do even with the benefit of two Eisenhower landslides in the 1950s. Despite their comeback in the congressional and gubernatorial elections of 1966, despite their gains at the statehouse and Senate levels this year, the Republicans must drive their roots still deeper. And they must do it at a time when the electorate seems more independent than ever...
...sense, that is the message of the hippies and the white middle-class youth who are fascinated with dropping out and with rebelling against a system predicated on success. In some way, they may carry a lesson for the U.S. Yet their approach, with its faddish overtones of yoga, zen and similar other-worldly philosophies, is hardly adequate...
This Jonah was no theoretician. He was, wrote old School Friend Cyril Connolly recently, "a political animal [who] could not blow his nose without moralizing on conditions in the handkerchief industry." Though Orwell was a socialist, the metaphysical system underlying Marxian socialism meant nothing to him, and he had an empirical Englishman's distrust of other philosophical abstractions; to him, the existentialist Sartre was a windbag. But he also held an immense advantage over English intellectuals in politics who, by comparison, seem like dishonest children...