Word: statism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...realization is growing that the shortfall in investment is the main source of the nation's economic difficulties, and that the shortfall itself is rooted in policies that have led to too much statism and not enough private initiative. Liberal or conservative, Republican or Democrat, almost all the experts agree on the causes of America's capital...
...long been a part of the British literary establishment, he has never felt comfortable with it. For one thing, the members operate in the wrong era. "This filthy 20th century," complains the self-made elitist. "I hate its guts." What better place for a man who loathes welfare statism than the century of the other Elizabeth? After decades of living in its atmosphere, Rowse tends to treat the Bard as an intimate. Others may puzzle over the identity of the Dark Lady of the Sonnets; Rowse is sure that she is Emilia Bassano Lanier, the half-Venetian wife...
...right), not docile students. Says Hayden: "There is a real clash between what they pick up in the camp and what they go back to." For the Birchers, what their children learn at camp provides a corrective to the subversive ideas taught in school. "The kids are indoctrinated with statism in the public schools," claims Karen Fiddament, whose daughter attended a Birch Society camp this summer. "The camps indoctrinate them with another point of view...
...party of the European type. But the Democrats are possibly more alive than those relics: they contain a cross-section of the nation, have little real opposition to their left, and the Democratic progressives' long exile in the opposition has made them a bit more skeptical of pure welfare-statism than its European counterparts...
...period of global Depressions unequaled before or since, and of the rise of both Fascism and Communism in Europe and militarism in my own country. I had already spent some time as a youthful observer in Germany and the Soviet Union, where it seemed to me the myths of statism left no room for individual liberty, initiative or responsibility, and where Utopian visions of the future seemed contrived and grim...