Word: rightward
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There hasn't even been a political trend worth mentioning -- the election signifying less a leftward trend than a rejection of the rightward trend, which has been slithering around for two decades now. As a result, we've been forced to import trends, like karaoke, or revive fossil trends like troll dolls, who first showed their wizened little rubber faces almost 30 years...
Ernst Uhrlau, chief of the Hamburg bureau of the Office to Protect the Constitution, fears that the rightward turn is more serious than many suspect. He predicts "more nationalism, less tolerance and a greater sense of radicalization." Hate crimes throughout Germany increased more than fivefold in 1991, to 1,483, compared with 1990, and this year's tally will run even higher. Uhrlau is worried that a wave of ultra-right terror could lie in the future -- a campaign as powerful as the left-wing violence of the late 1960s...
...defending the Pope's teachings and attacking ideologies that "seek to eradicate the natural and essential distinction between the sexes." They passed the petition along and found themselves with an astonishing 50,000 signers. Hitchcock now runs the lay lobby Women for Faith & Family, which has prodded the hierarchy rightward. Their efforts are complemented by a coalition of antifeminist nuns that received Rome's recognition and went into business last month, undercutting the exclusive status of a rival nuns' organization that has pressed for wider women's roles...
...would a sitting President, assured of the Republican nomination, add such a personal touch to this formality? Ask Pat Buchanan, the polemicist turned candidate, whose aggressive effort to shift the G.O.P. rightward threatens to siphon off enough conservative votes to embarrass Bush at the outset of what could be a tough re-election bid. Buchanan "deserves the Christopher Columbus award," quips Democratic state chairman Chris Spirou, "because he forced Bush to discover New Hampshire...
...optimism is overblown. The cordon of communist-run industrial towns around Paris has frayed over the past decade as the country, ever more prosperous, moves rightward. In the 1988 presidential election, the Communist Party polled only 6.8%. Nonetheless, even as Soviet totalitarianism self- destructs, President Francois Mitterrand's minority Socialist government depends on 26 Communist deputies to pass its legislation. Unlike Communist parties in Italy and Spain, France's apparatus has no plans to change its name. Forty-six of France's 226 largest cities, including Bobigny, remain in Communist Party hands. And there, the mood is a mixture...