Word: frontierisms
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...into the press, blacks and whites alike hotly denounced Moynihan for emphasizing black culpability more than white discrimination. In a book published last year, Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding, he argued that the antipoverty program exemplified splendidly the failure of participatory democracy. Many of his old friends in the New Frontier were angered and appalled...
...Given a reasonable response from Poland, Brandt is prepared to recognize within the next year the Oder-Neisse line as Germany's eastern frontier, thus ceding to Poland the huge former German territories that passed under Polish control...
...game is something. The marathon is a handy metaphor for just about everything that's wrong with America: capitalistic manipulation and dehumanization: the physical and spiritual bankruptcy of the California frontier; the war mentality of the competitive nature of American life. Much of this is brought home (sometimes too explicitly) by the frighteningly familiar em???, played by Gig Young...
...covers everything from bumper stickers ("Make the Message Simple") to sound trucks ("Never Pass Through a Residential Neighborhood After 7:30 p.m."). But O'Brien is much more than an "election man." As a White House aide and then Postmaster General, he successfully promoted the passage of New Frontier and Great Society legislation. Through his undisputed skill and engaging Irish manner, O'Brien still draws affection, respect and trust from all corners of the party. Even his adversaries have found him honest and fair...
...long time, Nixon deliberately avoided raising any rhetorical pennants; he did not coin his own equivalent of the "New Frontier" or the "Great Society." Lately, he has settled upon the doctrine of a New Federalism-a formula that embodies the Nixonian ideal of power diffused downward to state and local authorities. The notion is not so different from the New Left's "Power to the People!"-except that Nixon has different people in mind. And unlike some participatory democrats, the President would keep the states and localities on a long, loose but authoritative federal leash...