Word: leftism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...China, was fostering the development of a potential enemy. Aikman acknowledged that the United States may in fact be helping to sustain a government operating under an ideology the American government opposes, but said that "it is in our best interests that we encourage reforms against the leftism that Mao advocated...
...People are becoming tired of the chokehold liberals and leftism have had on this campus," Kashani asserts...
...focus of this production is on the fluid, intense interactions between characters, and Jennings never lets excessive motions detract from the power of the character's language. In his two productions last year Enemy of the People and The Mother. Jennings let extreme political leftism overshadow the acting. But in this play, Jennings has cast political sentiment aside and concentrated his attentions on accentuating the fineness of the acting...
DIED. Suzanne La Follette, 89, conservative journalist and founding editor of several magazines, including National Review; in Menlo Park, Calif. An early, ardent feminist, she revived the radical magazine the Freeman in 1930. Gradually departing from leftism, she revived the Freeman yet again in 1950, this time as the voice of the "nontotalitarian right." "I haven't moved," she once said of her views. "The world has moved to the left...
...implication, then, the widespread resistance was cooperating extensively with the old-line revolutionaries. Stuff and nonsense--"traditional" leftism was the wart on the log in the hole of the bottom of the sea. (By contrast, Podhoretz mentions Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) exactly once, and that reference is to their "crude..." propaganda--a laughable charge to anyone who has read The Port Huron Statement, one of the most troubling and insightful documents of the decade...