Word: phrasing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...affluent society's phrase for what used to be known as salami tactics...
CIVIL RIGHTS. Johnson brought the subject up repeatedly, even without provocation, with the flat statement: "Under Jack Kennedy, the Democratic Party will guarantee the constitutional rights of every American, no matter what his race, religion-or what section of the country he comes from." The last qualifying phrase admittedly and deliberately softened the touchy issue for many white Southerners who feel subjected to a certain regional apartheid in other parts of the country...
...vice-President mentioned. I only said that we are going to have a Depression, crying, hungry children, weeping mothers, and misery if this country does not get some new, youthful. Democratic leadership. This country is behind. I want to put it ahead. I have, to use Franklin Roosevelt's phrase, "a rendezvous with destiny." That is the issue in this campaign. Let me add that in the great world conflict with Russia we are losing politically, we are losing militarily, and we are losing economically. Our position stinks and we'd better do something quick...
...liberal hour," according to John Kenneth Galbraith (who borrowed the phrase from Adlai Stevenson), is "the moment just before presidential elections when even the most obsolete men become reconciled, if briefly and expediently to the machine...
Black invents a phrase, "development diplomacy," that is, "how to secure advantages in terms of development without arousing too much hostility." The development diplomat's job is to "illuminate the choices" before the governments of poor nations, to show them the possible effects that building a Brasilia, or laying a railway, may have on the growth of the economy. By no means should he attempt to make the choices himself--that should be left to the politicians--for he may ignore the social and political implications of his decision. There is nothing new about any of this, but Black puts...