Word: jacobinism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...necessary, then, to test political ideas by their currency with pratical, an deven with ordinary men. One must get at the realities of politics for leaders as for rank and file. --Political Ideas in the Jacobin Clubs...
...newly organized critics, who call themselves, with Jacobin earnestness, "the Committee for the City," are a non-partisan coalition of activists from Los Angeles' professional, academic and artistic worlds. They have the strong and enthusiastic support of Los Angeles Times Publisher Otis Chandler, who allows that "it would be nice to have someone in office who would do good things for the city." At their first general meeting this week, the nearly 200 members will consider issues and candidates for the spring battle with Yorty. A leading contender is Frank Mankiewicz, Robert Kennedy's press secretary, who used...
...conclusion is pallid; Author Sciascia's novel starts more promisingly than it ends. Much of its second half is given over to an incongruously earnest subplot concerning a Jacobin revolutionary and his bloody, awful torture at the hands of the government. Even so, readers who remember Giuseppe di Lampedusa and his Leopard's lament for a lost aristocracy will be amused by this compensatory catcall from the other side of the island...
...Barere), William Dockin (Collot d'Herbois) and George Hamlin (Herault-Sechelles) all manager relatively lively characterizations. But they relied entirely on what Buechner gave them. Not one of them worked out any business to rivet the audience's attention. When Robert Chapman (Robespierre) took the podium to address the Jacobin Club, he held the audience in silence while he put on his glasses. No one else in the cast did something like that--not even Williams...
...While Palmer is a meticulously honest historian incapable of suppressing any facts, he interprets them with some elasticity. He maintains, for instance, that Robespierre and John Adams were spiritual twins of the Enlightenment, that Adams in Robespierre's shoes might well have behaved as ruthlessly as the fanatic Jacobin...