Word: guru
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School last March 20, Nobel-Prize winning economist Lawrence Klein was giving an introductory economics lecture when three followers of political guru Lyndon LaRouche burst in, accusing Klein of Nazism and genocide. Klein responded, "I insist that you are a bunch of screwballs, and would you please get out," and university police arrived and evicted the LaRouchites. Two weeks later, the South African ambassador to the United States was scheduled to come to Penn to speak on apartheid, but opted out when members of the eight-group United Minorities Council threatened a mass demonstration...
...seen a growth of generous spirit toward the least privileged among us, and that has the risk of turning into an 'Everything's O.K., we don't have to worry about anybody else' kind of attitude." Editor Charles Peters of the Washington Monthly, guru...
THOUGH THE Democratic battle has attracted most of the media attention so far, the Republican contest between old-line Brahmin guru Elliot L. Richardson '41 and self-made-millionaire-businessman-cum-populist-conservative Ray Shamie has provided a more substantive debate on President Reagan and the future of the ailing state Republican organization...
THOUGH THE Democratic battle has attracted most of the media attention so far, the Republican contest between old-line. Brahmin guru Elliot L. Richardson '41 and self-made-millionaire-businessman-cum-populist-conservative Ray Shamie has provided a more substantive debate on President Reagan and the future of the ailing state Republican organization...
PREACHERS. The young Turks have formed a wary alliance with the crusaders and polemicists of the New Right. These include Richard Viguerie, the guru of direct-mail fund raising and publisher of Conservative Digest, Paul Weyrich of the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, and Terry Dolan of the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC). Their avatar is Senator Helms of North Carolina. But one of the New Right leaders concedes, "We could go with Jack Kemp. We like him. But we still have to see whether he has the guts...