Word: proclaimed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie Network, a manic anchorman exhorts his listeners to proclaim through open windows that they won't take abuse any more. In real journalism, Jack Newfield screams a similar demand, but he wants his audience to protest in closed voting booths. Rage rather than dementia drives this full-time muckraker-one reason why his novelty value has survived six books and hundreds of articles; few can match the fresh indignation he brings to old scams...
...American temper is strikingly different today from what it was then. After World War II, the nation enjoyed an almost cocky belief that it could do anything - and everything. Had not the U.S. just saved civilization? Did not the U.S. own the Bomb? Most Americans were eager to proclaim their nation the greatest. And they turned out to be perfectly willing to prove it - once they had been asked to. Americans of Marshall's day, of course, also had trust in their Government - and a certitude about their power to prevail that had not been crumpled by Viet...
...number seems destined to grow substantially in the years ahead. Last October the United Auto Workers signed a three-year contract with Ford that gives U.A.W. workers a total of 45 annual paid days off by 1979; this inspired the union's then president, Leonard Woodcock, to proclaim: "We are on the road to a four-day week. The principle is there...
...hopes to leave "a decent world for our children and our grandchildren." He said the sacrifices he would ask of Americans "will be painful" but also "gradual, realistic?and, above all, fair." Well aware of the difficulties in getting his program through Congress, he predicted special-interest groups would proclaim "sacrifice is fine, as long as other people do it." Pointedly looking beyond Congress, Carter predicted that the fate of his plan "will not be decided here in Washington, but in every town and every factory, in every home and on every highway and every farm...
Intellectuals all over the world, real or pseudo, proudly proclaim that "democracy" won and "Indira the Dictator" lost. But think again. The capitalists are on the winning side and so are the Communists. Then who are the losers? Probably some 600 million common people of India. Could it be that Indira the Dictator was the true champion of the people after...