Word: diminished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...booming, resonant tones of a prophet. As early as 1928, he argued for old-age pensions and public works, the five-day week and unemployment insurance. When Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal made those ideas law, socialism's appeal to the U.S. working class began to diminish. "It was often said," Thomas reflected, "that Roosevelt was carrying out the Socialist Party platform. Well, in a way it was true -he carried it out on a stretcher...
...throws a temporary roadblock in the path of New York City's Mayor John Lindsay. At the moment, Lindsay's popularity in the city is at a low ebb, and the Governor's office would have been an attractive alternative should his citywide appeal continue to diminish. The. Rockefeller decision eliminates that alternative. Moreover, the mayor would probably have little chance of dislodging fellow Republican Charles E. Goodell from his Senate seat. What ever his prospects in the next two years, Lindsay's long-range future still looks bright. The possibility of running for Governor...
...have a further practical drawback. Middle-income workers would not benefit at all, as they would with family allowances, and they would undoubtedly balk at paying taxes to subsidize people who earn only a few hundred dollars less than they themselves make. However, the objections, big as they are, diminish when they are placed next to the welfare monstrosity that now exists...
...reform, the prospects are discouraging. Americans overwhelmingly favor change now, but as new crises develop, they are likely to forget about the problem until some future presidential contest again threatens to capsize the election system. More important, smaller states are certain to reject an amendment that would severely diminish their importance. Since a constitutional amendment requires ratification by three-fourths of the states as well as approval of two-thirds of both houses of Congress, the old electoral college mathematics probably will apply again...
...other hand, make Shaw's presence a more vivid one, it is because the subject's real life was as a writer rather than a personality, a writer sufficiently great that his prose truly outshone his person. Under these circumstances, it is inevitable that a portrayal will seem to diminish Shaw's stature as much as it throws light on his character...