Word: leftishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...energetic reorganization, inspired by the Communists, was "the most profoundly religious Christian experience I have ever been through." He said so in a letter to the Rev. William Howard Melish, Brooklyn Episcopalian and great & good friend of Soviet Russia. The letter turned up in succession in 1) the leftish Churchman and 2) Soviet Russia Today...
...John B. Walthour, a Low Churchman, Bishop of Atlanta, and Donald H. V. Hallock, a High Churchman, Bishop-Coadjutor of Milwaukee. Their second story was an impartial review of the stalemate between Long Island's Bishop James P. DeWolfe (High) and the Rev. William Howard Melish (Low and Leftish-see above), whose disputed rectorship is still one of the church's hot potatoes...
Legs Without Heads. Draper's first headache in his new job will be combatting a misconception about him in Europe -and in the leftish reaches of U.S. politics. Because he was the man who in 1946 carried out the U.S.'s revised economic policy toward Germany-throwing out all traces of the Morgenthau Plan-he became tagged as "pro-German." He was accused of not doing enough to break up German industry; now that German industry is needed in the reconstruction of Western Europe, that criticism lacks its old force, but the prejudice against him persists...
...Bible's most flaming story of transgression ... A tremendous cast of thousands recreate a world of passion and fire!" This kind of overheated advertising blurb (for David and Bathsheba), and the kind of movie it is designed to sell, goaded Britain's leftish-highbrow weekly New Statesman and Nation into inviting its readers to invent puffs for other cinematic possibilities in the Old Testament. Last week Hollywood tittered a little self-consciously at the results...
...seven other papers in Hoiles's string* of small-city dailies, such crackpot cerebrations have come to be part of the routine grist from the Hoiles mill, to be taken with the news. Among other Hoiles convictions: Herbert Hoover and the National Association of Manufacturers are too leftish, churches are socialistic, majority rule should be abolished, and so should aid to Europe, all involuntary taxes, and unions. Most of his readers have no choice but to read Hoiles papers; in nine of the ten cities, there is no competition. But there have been violent objections. Four times his plants...