Word: leftish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Without any question, however, in the '30s at Cambridge, homosexuality and leftish opinions tended to go together. For instance, many of the Apostles, an elitist society at one time dominated by [Economist John Maynard] Keynes, and closely associated with his college, King's, notoriously combined culture, Communism and the love that nowadays all too readily dares to speak its name. Also in residence at King's, and also decisively homosexual, was the famous but, as I think, much overrated novelist E.M. Forster, who provided putative traitors with a serviceable formula for justifying their treachery by insisting that...
...race. She is also highly credible to ordinary voters, many of whom seem ready for a tough voice. That same message, however, makes her suspect among those who fear a return to the city's bad old days of openhanded spending on social services, consider her leftish, and point to her lack of administrative experience. And, just below the surface of her current relatively controlled persona, lurks the shadow of the old Bellicose Bella, for whom rage is the staff of life...
With this in mind, committee members heard witnesses with impatience, since they now consider Rocky's confirmation a foregone conclusion. Joseph Rauh spoke for the Americans for Democratic Action, a national organization of some 65,000 members, almost all Democrats, who lobby for liberal to leftish measures. Rauh insisted that Rocke feller was unfit for office because of his wealth. "A vote for confirmation," said Rauh, "is a vote for a [potential] President who will never spend a day with out a serious conflict of interest and whose White House will exist under a dark cloud of suspicion...
...impossible for any neo-classical economist. For this reason, and also because the senior Sociology faculty is somewhat to the left of Economics, an Economics-type purge of radicals seems unlikely. Taylor said last week, "In the Sociology Department, there are various sorts of Marxist sympathizers and very leftish liberals. They do not react with horror at the mention of Marx, the way many orthodox economists...
...interested." Last week, after guiding NR through one-third of its intellectually rich and financially lean six decades, Harrison returned the friend's interest by placing NR's future in his hands. The new owner and editorial chairman: Harvard Social Scientist Martin Peretz, 34, advocate of leftish causes and angel of liberal Democratic candidates (Eugene McCarthy, George McGovern...