Word: leftishness
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...Murdoch will have to sell both the New York Post, a screeching tabloid partial to news of crime, sex and the latest lottery winner, and the more sedate Chicago Sun-Times. To raise cash for the Metromedia deal, Murdoch is also seeking a buyer for the Village Voice, the leftish Manhattan weekly that nearly always was at odds with its owner's conservative politics (asking price: a very capitalistic $55 million...
...first urged us to bring--strategic musings about nuclear war fighting, the casual remark about nuclear war of the first year or so of the Reagan administration, or the Reagan military build-up which created the neutralist climate in West Germany. The deepest crisis, especially among the young, the leftish intellectuals, and the Protestant Churches, is a moral one. The peace movement is part of a larger romantic, anti-modernist impulse which in turn draws its inspiration and main themes from two sources first, the effect of a political and cultural assault on liberal democracy and capitalism beginning...
...European, especially the West German left. At the moment, this is the greatest cause for concern in assessing all of the aspects of today's balance of forces in Europe. The bright spot is that the Western European electorates have demonstrated more common sense than the highly educated articulate leftish minorities in the universities churches and the media...
Gays have recorded a few other victories that give them rights mimicking those of the nuclear family. In New York City, employees of Rupert Murdoch's leftish weekly Village Voice will soon be able to get health benefits for gay (and straight) lovers, with the company paying the cost. Last summer a New York appeals court ruled that a gay man could adopt his lover in a case where the partners involved were fighting an apartment lease that prohibited occupancy by nonfamily members. Noting that homosexual relations in private are no longer against the law in New York...
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...