Word: egalitarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speeches do more than make "high school English teachers cringe in disbelief"; they controvert the facts and convolute the issues. The "elocution is egregious," and the "underlying egalitarian message of his orations is obvious," (my emphasis added to Emmerich's observations), but oration can be the same as rhetoric, which is 90 per cent of Governor Finch...
Some ruling socialists take this rhetoric seriously. In radically socialist South Yemen, civil servants' salaries have been cut and luxury goods banned. Under Julius Nyerere's firm socialist hand, Tanzania has been turned into one of the world's most egalitarian societies. The steeply progressive personal taxes of most social democracies, meanwhile, are a way of redistributing wealth...
Citizens of Communist states are well aware that their rulers give only lip service to Marxism's egalitarian ideals. But all they can do is complain and joke. One popular story in the Soviet Union tells of Party Boss Brezhnev inviting his mother to his elegant villa in the Crimea. He shows her the lavish furnishings, his yachts, art treasures and the fleet of foreign cars he has received as gifts from visiting heads of state. After a table-groaning banquet, he asks: "Well, Mama, what do you think? Not bad for your little boy?" To which the old woman...
Through villages like Luhanga, Nyerere hopes to prove that socialism can reorganize and modernize his country, which ranks among the world's 25 poorest. Tanzania's leaders have fashioned one of the world's most egalitarian societies. Thanks to sharply progressive taxes, the earnings ratio between the highest-and lowest-paid citizen is now 9 to 1, down dramatically from about 100 to 1 at the time of independence from Britain 16 years ago. A strict "leadership code" bars most civil servants from drawing more than one salary, owning rent-producing property, or riding around in limousines...
...Fort Lauderdale has proceeded, by recent Yankee standards, like a love-in. For an entire week one and all behaved as though Norman Vincent Peale were in the locker room. Jackson reported to camp early in his silver and blue Rolls-Royce Corniche and shook hands all around with egalitarian humility. Thurman Munson managed not to insult anyone through the simple expedient of keeping his mouth shut. "I'm not talking today," he said, day after day. Expensive Benchwarmer Ken Holtzman arrived sans his cavalryman's mustache, perhaps hoping that Martin might mistake him for a fresh-faced...