Word: triumphantly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the triumphant re-election of President Nixon a year ago, Republicans were talking about becoming the new majority party for the rest of the century. After last month's elections against the somber backdrop of Watergate, some Republicans are wondering where next year's votes are going to come from. Though the party did not suffer a rout and there was no consistent pattern across the U.S., the more the professionals examined the returns, the more it appears that voters, especially Republican voters, had decided to punish the G.O.P. for Watergate. Says Ronald A. Sarasin, a Republican...
...Watergate's many side effects has been to evict from the public's attention the figure of the beleaguered reporter languishing in jail for refusing to name his news sources. The investigative reporter triumphant has replaced him and the controversy over disclosing confidential information has shifted from newsmen's notebooks to the Oval Office tapes. But this triumph is illusory. Across the country, reporters, editors and publishers still face a variety of judicial and legislative attacks that threaten basic press freedom...
...with incidents that are out of date, out of character, or both. (Out of date: The film opens with Hart, harassed by a professor in his first class, throwing up his breakfast into the swirling waters of the nearest toilet bowl. Out of character: The film ends with Hart, triumphant at having beaten the professor and survived his first year, throwing an unopened letter containing his hard-won grades into the swirling waters of the Atlantic...
Worse is to come, she predicts. The current penal-reformist notion of group therapy may be "withering on the vine," but the behaviorists are about to bloom. A $13.5 million Behavioral Research Center is due to open near Butner, N.C., early in 1974. Articles with triumphant titles like "Criminals Can Be Brain washed−Now&" are appearing. In the spirit of 1984, solitary confinement is referred to by some prisons as "the Adjustment Center," and ordinary cells are called "Behavior Modification Units." Beating is known as "Aversion Therapy." Upjohn and Parke-Davis maintain $500,000 worth of laboratories with...
...poll's findings show a general mood of public despair about conditions in the nation-an attitude that has changed drastically since a Yankelovich survey in October 1972, shortly before Nixon's triumphant reelection. Then, 53% of the people had a positive feeling about the way things were progressing; now 71% feel that things are going badly. Watergate is a substantial factor in the shift, since 36% of the public now express concern about the scandal. Yet the economy worries more people (66%, a climb of 25% since 1972), while the war in Southeast Asia predictably has dropped...