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...campus, radicals accuse the University of being the lackey of a corrupt, imperialist, racist society. They demand a cessation of those practices which they consider to be key to maintaining such a society. They ask the University to take the lead in remaking that society. The administration counters with the argument that it is not proper for a university to become involved in politics. They see a university as a free area where any ideas are welcome and all are free to partake of in intellectual pursuits. They see the radical demands and tactics as a threat to this "free...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: A Review of the Year Five Issues That Divided The University | 6/11/1970 | See Source »

...ludicrous sight of the President of the strongest nation in the world disguised as a lackey running to New York probably more than made up for any discomfiture suffered by President Pompidou while he was in this country. To assuage the unfriendly head of a fifth-rate power, such actions are only degrading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 23, 1970 | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

...bars of this serves as my daily patriotic pap and it elicits remarkable 'American' feelings and responses. At night we get a few laughs by listening to the English-language news reports from Peking--the announcers have a vocabulary range of about 35 words chief among them being 'lackey, stooge, reactionary, aggressor, imperialist, fascist, nazi, and Glorious Chairman...

Author: By Lawrence A. Walsh, | Title: Vietnam: An Outside Perspective | 1/24/1968 | See Source »

Posing as the lackey of a nonexistent count, Sellers persuades the senorita to wait with him evening after evening for the aristocrat to arrive. Out of bore dom, Eklund endures him, then tolerates him, and at last-her cool melted by champagne-falls in love. The morning after Sellers wins his wager, he confesses all in an orgy of guilt. Raging, the seducee marches him at shotgun point to a bathtub full of cerulean stain. Bobo is last seen in a bullfight poster proclaiming his indisputably unique credentials as "The Singing Blue Matador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blue Matador | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

...indeed was part of the movement now began turning on the President and all his works. Thus, Ramparts published an editorial written by Marcus Raskin, evincing great concern that I seemed to think more Negroes should be in the armed forces (I do); and indicting me further as a lackey of the "social welfare monopolicy--with its cop and spying attributes" that now proposed to force decent proletarian Negroes to live like the white bourgeoisie and to "torture" them with birth control. I had become a most suspect person indeed in the ranks of SNCC and CORE, and the Presidential...

Author: By Daniel P. Moynihan, | Title: Liberals Could Not Take Action On Facts They Wouldn't Accept | 2/7/1967 | See Source »

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