Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Where will the Man and Woman of the Year be led by their discontent? The left sees the nation already on the edge of a long night of repression. Nixon, says the left, is subtly calling forth the night riders. The liberal-oriented National Committee for an Effective Congress worries...
Witness, says the left, the Chicago conspiracy trial, in which seven defendants face possible $10,000 fines and five-year jail terms for violating a law of doubtful constitutionality. Or witness what seems to radicals?and many others?to be a systematic police slaughter of Black Panther leaders. They point...
Some Middle Americans doubtless do believe that repression is the only answer. They were disposed to take Spiro Agnew seriously when he tossed off his line: "We can afford to separate them from our society with no more regret than we should feel over discarding rotten apples from a barrel...
In the '20s, it was merely the values of small-town America that were challenged. In the '60s and into the '70s, it is the nation itself. Americans, almost unique in the world, are incapable of imagining a different form of government for the nation. As William Pfaff observes, "The...
The present shift to the right is in one perspective illusory. Since the start of the New Deal, the tide of the nation has flowed to the left. Middle America is now swimming against that tide on some issues, but the current is likely to continue, carrying it ever more