Word: leftishness
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...Both were aware of Frost's monomania and his overwhelming intolerance of anyone who dared to disagree with him. "Sometimes I can think of no blissfuller state," Frost wrote, "than being treated as if I was always right." A constant target of his letters was Untermeyer's leftish reformism. "When you can write poetry like 'Jerusalem Revisited'," Frost railed in 1930, "why will you continue to mess with the masses (or is it mass with the messes)?" Frost was no friend of the welfare state. "I loathe togetherness," he wrote. "The best things and best people...
...annual dole, and Youlou raised taxes. Basic food prices doubled, and as bush people kept streaming into crowded Brazzaville, 19 out of every 20 Africans in the city were without work. Then Youlou made his worst mistake-he asked Guinea's demagogic, leftish President Sékou Touré for a visit. Instead of uttering niceties, the guest electrified the locals with denunciations of African leaders who turn wealthy bourgeois...
...lifelong advocate of leftish causes, Oxnam joined scores of semipolitical groups, including some-such as the Council of American-Soviet Friendship-that were later exposed as Communist fronts. Republican Congressman Donald Jackson of California in 1953 charged on the floor of the House that Oxnam "served God on Sunday and the Communist front for the balance of the week." Oxnam requested and got a well-publicized hearing from House Un-American Activities Committee, belligerently went through a ten-hour session countering the subcommittee's sloppily documented charges. At the end, the Congressmen wearily agreed that Oxnam had no tinge...
...voluntarily paying hundreds of millions of dollars in support of your most vicious and most effective enemies. If I were a top executive of a company, I would quietly lay down the policy that prohibited advertising in any publication or upon any TV show which had a predominantly Leftish tinge...
Judge Connally was up against a school board that specializes in finding "controversial" anything which it disapproves of. The board's right-wing majority has denounced the U.N. as unAmerican, banned standard textbooks as "anti-capitalistic," fired teachers on shaky charges of being "leftish." In this crusade, no one has been more energetic than tiny, taut Bertie Maughmer, 44, wife of Police Lieutenant Earl Maughmer Jr. Last week, as an eerie footnote to the proceedings, Board Member Maughmer was under a charge of assault to murder. The man she is accused of trying to kill: Policeman Maughmer...