Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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The culture no longer seems to supply many heroes, but Middle Americans admire men like Neil Armstrong and, to some extent, Spiro Agnew. California Governor Ronald Reagan and San Francisco State College President S. I. Hayakawa have won approval for their hard line on dissent. Before his death last year...
Middle America's villains are less easily singled out. Yippie Abbie Hoffman or S.D.S. leaders like Mark Rudd are hardly important enough by themselves to constitute major devils. With such faceless groups as the Weathermen, they merely serve as symbols of all the radicals who pronounce the country evil and...
But there is a danger of oversimplifying both the loves and the hates of Middle America. Despite all the evidence of a shift to the right, Middle America for
(3 of 11) years?certainly since the New Deal?has been part of the country's basic leftward trend, and still is. The Middle is located much farther toward the left today than it was a decade ago.
Who precisely are the Middle Americans? Columnist Joseph Kraft gave the term currency in late 1967. They make up the core of the group that Richard Nixon now invokes as the "forgotten Americans" or "the Great Silent Majority," though Middle Americans themselves may not be a majority of the U.S...