Word: leftishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris, L'Observateur thought it heard war cries from across the Atlantic, and it didn't like them. What alarmed the leftish (but non-Communist), highbrow weekly was Collier's fictional account of World War III (TIME, Oct. 29). L'Observateur diagnosed the Collier's issue as a symptom of a general U.S. psychoneurosis, lampooned the Collier's act, showed Russia winning World War III. L'Ob-servateur's most striking illustration: a drawing of General Eisenhower surrendering to a Russian officer. Said I'Observateur: Collier's "rendered a great...
Last week the leftish Nation, which has seldom found itself on the same side of the fence as the conservative Digest, dropped a crocodile tear as it extended its "professional sympathy, somewhat ruefully." Said the Nation: "[Monsignor Westenberger's] epithets . . . must have caused a shudder in Pleasantville...
Other M.P.s, both Labor and Tory, heatedly echoed the question. Cause of the commotion was Australian-born Scientist Eric Burhop, 40, leftish lecturer in physics at London University who had spent some 18 months during World War II working on atom projects in the U.S. Last fortnight, just as Burhop was about to leave for a "good will" trip to Moscow with 19 other members of the British-Soviet Friendship Society, his passport was canceled...
...doctors opposed the bill and the Roman Catholic Church came out against it because it would mean state interference in private family concerns. Another opponent: Sean MacBride, Foreign Minister in the Costello cabinet and leader of Browne's own party, the Clann Na Poblachta (whose platform is mildly leftish). Denouncing both Costello and MacBride, Browne resigned. Last week Browne, running as an independent, was re-elected to his seat by a comfortable majority. MacBride and his party suffered heavy losses...
Their bill, H. 743, gives no definition of a communist sympathizer, although its sponsors would include anyone with a "leftish tinge." Equally important, it does not discriminate between what a teacher believes and what he teaches...