Word: factionally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faction for Action." Like many utopias before it. Washington Square Village fell short of its promise. The "carports" and "self-contained shopping" promised in the brochure failed to materialize. Ten ants complained of "tinny" stoves, faulty airconditioning, erratic elevators, bugs in the basement, cracks in the plaster, rips in the corridor wall covering...
Unlike most suffering dwellers in the new ziggurats of Manhattan, the Washington Square Villagers rebelled, formed a Tenants Association (324 members) to struggle with the management. But the association proved to be too tame for Fran Weiss and some other angry tenants, who split off into a "Faction for Action." Artistic tenants contributed cartoons (see cut) to the cause. Last week the Tenants Association was quarreling with the Faction for Action, the Faction for Action was making plans to sue the management, and the management was advertising that "the flowers are blooming, the fountains are spouting. New Yorkers are renting...
...Gallic wars (as Caesar did in his own Commentaries), but considering that a million tribesmen were killed and another million taken prisoner, Warner's account of the campaigns is curiously bloodless. All the other facts are equally familiar-the First Triumvirate, the attempt by Pompey and a senatorial faction to curb Caesar's growing authority, the crossing of the Rubicon and the outbreak of civil war, Pompey's flight and Caesar's mastery of all Italy. By couching his narrative in the first person, supposedly in the hero's own words, the author tries...
...Howard faction of liberals crystallizes, so does an anti-Howard clique of conservatives, and the short-fused passions of left v. right detonate. Playing Zola to Howard's Dreyfus is a man of good will and strong character, Lewis Eliot, the upper-echelon bureaucrat and first-person narrator who either dominates or "I" witnesses most of the Snow novels. What Eliot gradually collects is not so much the evidence to clear Howard as the ambiguous human motives-sly, cynical, stoic, self-serving, occasionally selfless-that convict all would-be judges...
...from Prestonsburg (pop. 3,585) with a way-down-yonder drawl, was elected last year over a handpicked Chandler candidate. A shy, retiring sort of man, he seemed likely to be overshadowed by 1) powerful former U.S. Senator Earle C. Clements, who had backed Combs against the rival Chandler faction, and 2) smart, persuasive Lieutenant Governor Wilson Wyatt, onetime (1941-45) mayor of Louisville and U.S. housing expediter in 1946 under Truman. But from the beginning, Combs worked smoothly with Wyatt, and he quickly let Clements know who was boss. At his first cabinet meeting, Combs listened politely while tough...