Word: backlash
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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While many minority students are skeptical of an actual conspiracy, most feel that the recent events reflect a growing conservative backlash against the advances made by Blacks in the 1960's. At a rally held before the Yale game to protest the recent incidents, Lisa E. Davis '81 called on the assembled protesters and the horde of University administrators, including President Horner, and Deans Epps and Fox, to consider the threats in light of the recent national incidents...
...about ten albums in the last five years using a concept good for two albums at the most, combined with the realization that Devo, Roxy Music and even the Talking Heads have all released superior albums to the ones they did with him, has led to the current critical backlash against the man who in art-rock circles could once do no wrong...
...Republicans received a lot of unsolicited help from the various right-wing organizations that have sprung up to combat liberalism, like the National Conservative Political Action Committee. But it is questionable how much these groups accomplished. For the most part, the G.O.P. candidates rejected their strident tactics, fearing a backlash. In general, the Republicans won because their opponents had grown too liberal for their states. Yet the conservative groups may have become a permanent feature of the political landscape. In Oklahoma, for example, the Protestant Moral Majority supported a born-again Catholic, State Senator Don Nickles, who overcame the favored...
...Schaffer, a survivor of a World War II German concentration camp, spearheaded the initiative by organizing a band of housewives with the slogan: "In America, English first." The movement gained momentum among whites after the summer's Miami riots and huge influx of Cuban refugees. Stung by the backlash, one Hispanic spokesman called the law "the most destructive thing that has ever happened to this community." Its impact, however, will mainly be on county road signs, tourist brochures and public notices. Bilingual education programs will not be affected...
...even an irreversible breakthrough would automatically have helped Carter politically. The Administration had hoped that the hostages would be freed before Election Day, but feared that some hostages might denounce Carter for the way he handled the crisis. The President's men also were afraid of a backlash against the Administration for making concessions to Iran. That danger grew Sunday when it became clear that the Iranians were going to prolong the suspense and the agony for the U.S. ? and thus almost inevitably intensify the impression worldwide that the U.S. was paying ransom to kidnapers...