Word: leftishness
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STREET PEOPLE have too often been straw people: embodiments of the various fantasies of the value-judgers of the adult world. If conservatives have made street people into symbols of degeneracy, the Left has done much the same, although Leftish slogans take a different tack...
While I suppose I ought to feel flattered at having been dubbed a "beloved leftish writer" (whatever that is), I must first of all insist that the Center for Cuban Studies, for whose benefit Memories was shown at the Harvard Square Theatre, is not, as your reviewer stated, a fellowship fund for leftist writers. Had he taken the trouble to read the front page of the same brochure from whose back page he took the names mentioned in his article, Prokosch would have understood that the Center for Cuban Studies is a tax-exempt, non-profit cultural institution whose purpose...
...from the foundation last year and has denied any knowledge of underworld connections. Ford charged that he had improperly given Parvin legal advice while on the court. Ford mentioned Parvin links to Bobby Baker, thus implying the same for Douglas. He scored the Justice's affiliation with the "leftish" Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. He also expressed outrage at the most recent of Douglas' 30 books, Points of Rebellion, saying that it gave "legitimacy to the militant hippie-yippie movement." Ford observed that he was infuriated chiefly because excerpts of the book appeared in the current...
...same time, however, the NDC has been building a broad voalition of white middle class suburbanites, academicians, and students from the old McCarthy movement with progressive Negroes (or less militant blacks, if you will), the Chicano (Mexican-American) community in the Southwest, leftish labour members, and Indians from the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's supporters. It is a highly decentralized operation--mostly on a state level, but often on a community level--which in some ways resembles the conservative Republican movement of the carly 1960s...
...brother's death and Bob Kennedy's emergence as the heir to the innovative, electric style of the late Kennedy Administration seemed to push his evolution apace. Opponents said that Kennedy had determined to carve out a leftish, intra-party opposition to President Johnson as the surest means to capitalize on his brother's reputation and retrieve the White House for the Kennedy dynasty...