Word: bandwagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Unruh has now been quick to admit the "tragic mistake of the United States." This act in itself would not be an education; it would be more like jumping on the bandwagon of political victory...
...title "war resister" is perhaps the most simplistic distortion of all. For these would-be "war resisters" have simultaneously managed to maintain their ties to the CLA, State Department, and Capitol Hill. Indeed, these men have taken quite a long time to jump on the anti-war bandwagon. Until it became safely fashionable to join the ranks of the war protestors, the professors' concerns were chiefly "business as usual," which business happens to be the genocidal destruction of a small Asian country. This is a novel brand of "war resister...
...wait out the United States at Paris in the expectation that American public opinion will eventually force a withdrawal of American troops without prior concessions by the Vietnamese. Such criticisms must be troubling for many of the politicians and prominent citizens who have recently jumped on the Moratorium bandwagon. since it is undeniable that the existence of a strong anti-war movement in the United States does remove whatever incentive to "negotiate" the continued American presence might hold for the Vietnamese. Any doubt on this score was removed last week when spokesmen for the North Vietnamese and the new Provisional...
Guerrilla demonstration tactics have been steadily losing their base of support, even among leftishly inclined students, since Columbia and Chicago. So Gardner's indignation at "the politics of derision and provocation," has a certain bandwagon quality, and his long tirade against abusers of dissent was effectively, if not intentionally, demagogic, especially when delivered from the sanctuary of a television studio...
...Nixon. Pennsylvania still has a large undecided vote, but the steady decay of the Democratic party machine, a skillfully waged Republican campaign and racial disorders in urban schools are all hurting Humphrey. In Maryland, voters are impressed by Nixon's substantial lead and seem anxious to join his bandwagon. In Tennessee, Humphrey's campaign just never ignited. Nixon currently enjoys a slight edge in Missouri, but if Humphrey picks up any momentum at all in the final weeks, he might be able to carry the normally Democratic state...