Word: leftishness
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Somewhat Illegal. Occasional criticism of her politics (her husband, Singer Yves Montand, was an unabashed fellow traveler, and she too has displayed a few leftish twinges) troubles her not at all. "My mother," says she, "was the kind to tan hides when people haven't given up a seat in the metro or taken back a racist remark. I'm a little bit like that...
...20th century's most publicized theologians, Karl Barth is popularly known more for his leftish political pernicketiness than his theological thinking, most of which lies buried in his verbose Church Dogmatics (twelve volumes so far). Especially valuable, therefore, is a book of Barth lectures just published, The Humanity of God (John Knox Press; $2.50). The book is a short, readable indication of recent developments in Barth's Bible-centered theology, and points up some conspicuous changes in his thinking...
Wrote the leftish New Republic, which spends considerable energies attacking Vice President Nixon: "Mr. Rockefeller can [now] give more attention to clarifying the issues ... If, in the process, he lifts the level of political debate, it will be to everyone's advantage. It may even generate some new ideas for the Democratic platform and help that party to avoid the temptation of spending all its energies in a negative attack on the Vice President." One rising young congressional Democrat, understandably claiming anonymity, lamented that Rockefeller was "the only man in either party who has been free of the responsibility...
...brand-new magazine is on sale this week on Russia's newsstands. Title: Science and Religion. Editorial slant: religion ridiculed in village-atheist terms, scientists chided for any signs of backsliding from faithlessness. (One author accuses leftish U.S. Astronomer Harlow Shapley of attempting to reconcile God and the expanding universe, advises him: "Your hopes are vain, Professor Shapley!") The magazine's lead article is by Britain's spry old Philosopher-Mathematician Bertrand Russell, 87, who asks: "Has religion made a useful contribution to civilization?" His answer: No, except for helping to establish the calendar and inducing...
...three weeks since he took over as Singapore's first Prime Minister after 140 years of British colonial rule, slim Lee Kuan Yew has not yet justified all the fears of what his leftish People's Action Party might do to capitalism. But as a determined anti-imperialist, Cantabrigian Lee went to work right away on what he thought were imperialism's decadent gifts to Asia. Cracking down on Singapore s boisterous seamy side, Lee banned jukeboxes, closed down some 1,200 pinball machines, and ordered the Singapore radio to stop broadcasting rock 'n' roll...