Word: imperialistically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...viewed as an economic entity, headed for the classical type of imperialism. This is the bare essential, we are told, and freedom of thought, religious and political liberty become, by implication, inessential. These things are words. Words by means of which selfish individuals lead youths to disaster and imperialist war. These inessentials are evidently to be replaced in "an America prosperous and busy" by the happy spirits of Marx and Lenin working through the agency of certain enlightened economists. For who can doubt your conclusion that "an American prosperous and busy is an America invincible and free?" By the same...
...Lord Russell was a pacifist persecuted by his own countrymen because he opposed England's entrance into "an imperialist World War." Today he is heart and soul with beleaguered England in its battle against Nazi Germany...
...hilt: the Britain of military aristocracy and that of the people who, like Churchill, have difficulty pronouncing a letter-theirs is h. He could, if he wanted, wear his old school (Harrow) tie; instead he wears a cocky, defiant bow. He is a Tory, an imperialist, and has been a strikebreaker and Red-baiter; and yet, when he tours the gutted slums of London, old women say: "God bless you, Winnie...
Just as aggressive was the Party platform which promised to: oppose all war loans and credits to the warring imperialist powers; stop the sale and shipment of munitions and armaments to the belligerents; resist the militarization and armaments program of the Administration and Congress...
Immoderate and humorless as Marxian sectarian journalists, as human beings the Partisan Review editors are an eager, uneven, engaging crew. Happiest when criticizing critics, capitalizing on capitalists and declaring war on "Imperialist War," they are almost as happy when they can snag a literary lion. Of these they have snagged a pride, from Apostle Trotsky himself to such international camelo-pards as Andre Gide and Gertrude Stein. Latest catch is Poet T. S. Eliot's new, beautiful, 200-line poem for the current May-June issue...