Word: leftish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Oscar ceremonies, and the Film Society of New York City's Lincoln Center was throwing a big party for him at Philharmonic Hall. But what about the audiences? Would they respond again to the comic humanity of his Little Tramp? Would they resurrect the old resentments at the leftish leanings and marital tangles that had led Attorney General James P. McGranery in 1952 to order him detained if he tried to re-enter the U.S.? Or would they merely show indifference at the appearance of another octogenarian has-been...
STREET PEOPLE have too often been straw people: embodiments of the various fantasies of the value-judgers of the adult world. If conservatives have made street people into symbols of degeneracy, the Left has done much the same, although Leftish slogans take a different tack...
While I suppose I ought to feel flattered at having been dubbed a "beloved leftish writer" (whatever that is), I must first of all insist that the Center for Cuban Studies, for whose benefit Memories was shown at the Harvard Square Theatre, is not, as your reviewer stated, a fellowship fund for leftist writers. Had he taken the trouble to read the front page of the same brochure from whose back page he took the names mentioned in his article, Prokosch would have understood that the Center for Cuban Studies is a tax-exempt, non-profit cultural institution whose purpose...
...from the foundation last year and has denied any knowledge of underworld connections. Ford charged that he had improperly given Parvin legal advice while on the court. Ford mentioned Parvin links to Bobby Baker, thus implying the same for Douglas. He scored the Justice's affiliation with the "leftish" Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. He also expressed outrage at the most recent of Douglas' 30 books, Points of Rebellion, saying that it gave "legitimacy to the militant hippie-yippie movement." Ford observed that he was infuriated chiefly because excerpts of the book appeared in the current...