Word: dialectician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fourteen, was a pacifist who was revolted by his experiences in the trenches of World War I. Radicals praised Dos Passos as the greatest American novelist of the age for his naturalistic writing and attention to social evils. James Burnham, an aristocratic graduate of Princeton, was a coldly analytical dialectician who became a leader of the party's Trotskyist faction...
...January 1970, George Jackson and two other blacks, Fleeta Drumgo and John Clutchette, were charged with the murder of John Mills, a guard at the state prison in Soledad, Calif. Jackson had already spent ten years in prison for a $70 robbery; there he turned into a skillful revolutionary dialectician and a leader of Soledad's militant black inmates. The 1970 indictments made him a radical hero, and the three became known as the Soledad Brothers...
Although seemingly more of a black militant than a dialectician, Angela never made a secret of her Communist Party membership. She proclaimed it during her recent assistant professorship in philosophy at U.C.L.A., which led the university's board of regents to refuse renewal of her contract last year. Still, when Angela disappeared after the courthouse kidnaping, her Communist affiliation appeared unimportant...