Word: monolithism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effectiveness, however, has already been called into question. The T.U.C. is not a monolith, but a loose federation that can exert only moral force over the individual unions it represents. The limits of its power were demonstrated when, less than a week after the T.U.C.'s pledge of cooperation, 1,800 workers at Ford Motor plants in Dagenham and Halewood went on strike. They are demanding further cost-of-living adjustments after the current escalator agreements expire next month. The walkout has already affected another 15,000 workers at the two plants. Says Arthur Flicker, spokesman for the shop...
...postwar era, covert action seemed eminently justifiable on the grounds that the U.S. was in a mortal struggle with the Communist world. Now that the cold war has abated and Communism is no longer a monolith, many scholars, diplomats and congressional leaders favor ending the CIA'S covert operations altogether, leaving it an intelligence-gathering agency...
Epstein raised some vexed questions, but reduced the answers to stereotypes. He cast "the media" as a monolith instead of the collection of diverse organizations and individuals that is American journalism. In hanging the civil rights movement's troubles on sensation-seeking press coverage, he ignored a host of political, social and economic factors. The piece was a paradigm of the opinionated mush that [More] attacks when it appears elsewhere. To cap the inconsistency, the same issue of [More] carried a full-page Mobil ad of the kind that Epstein deplored...
LEGEND HAS IT that the American South is a monolith. It had all begun by 1861, the story goes. Since the firing on Fort Sumter, the secession of 11 states and the formation of the Confederacy, Southern men and women have worshipped different heroes, anchored their beginnings to different battles and spun their folklore around a different war for independence. Their history began not in the spirit of 1976, but in the intransigence of the 1860s; not in Massachusetts Bay, but deep in the Delta of Mississippi or the Piedmont of South Carolina; not in the cradle of liberty...
...half of the voting Southerners in 1860 opposed secession? Why 54,000 whites in the 11 confederate states enlisted in the union fighting forces? How it happened that native Southern whites headed some of the most progressive Reconstruction governments? Or the remaining army of counterexamples to the South-as-monolith theory that Carl Degler unearths, catalogs and classifies in The Other South...