Word: populist
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...meant to be read aloud," he says. "I'm a troubadour, a village taleteller. I'm the guy at the end of the bar or in the shadows of the campfire." In the past decade, he has become a kind of Woody Guthrie of fiction, a conservative populist who believes the myths he creates. And his audience rides with him, attracted to simple writing about simple times...
What investors and executives expect from the "businessman's populist...
...part, the market's glow reflects a conviction in the business community that happy times will return with the incoming Administration. Says Felix Rohatyn, a partner in the influential Lazard Freres investment-banking firm: "Reagan is a businessman's populist. Under the Carter Administration, they considered themselves the whipping boys, overregulated and over-Naderized. Now they all see a better climate coming...
Eckhardt, 67, looking like a rumpled professor in his tweed suit and bow tie, but sounding like a Southern populist, replied that many of the charges were false. Said he: "I have never voted for a statute that would call for forced busing. I have never been for gun control, and I helped beat registration of rifles and shotguns." He claimed that the campaign ("the dirtiest I've ever encountered") was the work of ghosts hovering behind the scenes. Said he: "The $600,000 raised by oil companies [for Fields] is being used to repeat absolute lies. They...
...upsurge in the right-wing populist movement is related to this, Ansara said, adding that in almost any period of great change, "there is a tremendous longing for the mythic past...a past that leaves out the realities of depression, unemployment, war, and the misery of Blacks. This idea has a tremendous hold on people whose institutions have crumbled around them" he said...