Word: leftishness
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...example, Lipset claims that the leftish, militant Students for a Democratic Society have only 7,000 members among the na tion's 6.5 million university students. By contrast, the Young Democrats and Young Republicans have a combined enrollment of nearly 250,000. Lipset also believes that on both the left and right, far more students were activists in the 1930s than are so today...
...included more large metropolitan dailies. Replacing Goldwater in the Times is none other than Everett M. Dirksen, who will write one column a week. For his debut, Dirksen muted his usual flamboyance and delivered a somber little lecture on international politics. Even though India is "liberal and leftish," he wrote, even though she has seized tiny Goa, harassed Pakistan and hobbled free enterprise, she has one thing going for her: size. Therefore, suggested Dirksen, U.S. economic aid should be continued...
...Daughter of a Pittsburgh contractor, she served on Eisenhower's staff in World War II as a WAC officer-cryptographer, later studied law at Ohio Northern University and South Texas College; she has spent 17 years as a supervisor of social workers. A former member of the leftish Socialist Labor Party, she claims to have forsaken Christianity at 13, after reading the Bible; since then, reason has been her only faith, and she boasts: "Nobody has ever beaten me in an argument...
They fell in with a bohemian group of intellectuals led by Hazel Hawthorne, whom Fred describes as "one of the original beats," and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana, a somewhat leftish drama professor at Columbia and Harvard. Dana subsidized Cheever modestly, and Hazel took him to Provincetown to visit the famed Playhouse. He was already keeping the meticulous diary in which he accumulated the incidents, sights, smells and thoughts that are the raw material for his books. Cheever even then seemed to have an infinite capacity for wonder, was constantly fascinated with how close reality came to the fantastic. He began...
...Colombia was not required to surrender Peru's leftish leader, Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, who had taken asylum in the Colombian embassy in Lima...