Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More important than his accomplishments as legislator or administrator was his role as critic of American complacency. Not content with the satisfactions of wealth, he devoted his life to public service. At an age when most men prefer retirement, Herbert Lehman welcomed the call to political action. His life will remain an admirable example of courage and devotion to principle...
Through the Telescope. At week's end, such talk seemed to many, particularly in Britain, a considerable overstatement. Author-Critic Richard Hoggart expressed the belief that there had been no conspiracy at all and added: "For all kinds of historical reasons, America is much more hospitable to extremism. And there is the extraordinary availability of lethal weapons. So the paranoiac, instead of throwing himself off Waterloo Bridge, looks down his telescopic sights." Even Texas found its defenders, in a rough and ready way. Said London University's History Professor Harry Allen: "You don't conquer a great...
Bustamante's cousin and chief critic, former Premier Norman Manley, 70, complains that all this is not enough, that the government lacks the "dynamics of independence." Busta only snorts: "What my cousin means by dynamics is nationalization of business. This government will never get involved in that...
Trinidad-Tobago. In Trinidad-Tobago, two islands just off the coast of South America, Premier Eric Williams, 52, talks more wildly than Bustamante. Williams is a fiery critic of colonialism, professes to admire British Guiana's rabble-rousing Cheddi Jagan...
Ninety-eight years later, Critic Edmund Wilson, the most gifted and eloquent expositor of Marxism the U.S. ever produced, failed to file an income tax return. He went on failing to file right up to 1955, when he got around to opening financial conversations with the U.S. Government. In the nature of things, these talks were painful. They provoked in Wilson second and even more painful thoughts about the nature of government, of bureaucracy, of the status of free men, of the rights of a private man against the huge man-chewing, electronically endowed apparatus of a modern state...