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Nuggets of New Leftism. As in Detroit, interim papers have popped up in San Francisco, but they have not done very well. The Stanford Daily, which had added wire-service copy and increased its press run, gave up last week. The Berkeley student paper, the Daily Californian, is still struggling. Ramparts magazine has produced a slender daily with the motto: "What good is freedom of the press if there isn't one?" A free press apparently means little nuggets of New Leftism; last week the paper expanded somewhat, adding some Chronicle columnists. Meanwhile, out-of-town papers are enjoying...
While The Little Foxes is still stage-sturdy, its angle of vision is the leftism of the '30s, since it assumes that the root of all evil is economic. A 1939 audience would have understood the play as an attack on predatory capitalist morality. A 1967 audience is more likely to relish it as an indictment of greed, hate, and the Just for power at anytime, in any place...
...interesting case, interesting perhaps to study in the light of Barber's theories about aggression. Snyder is a charismatic, gleeful, booming-voiced, hyper-energetic Adonis of a man, very sharp-witted, very profound, a long-time student of Zen in Kyoto, and a poet who despite militant political leftism gives the impression of being the best-adjusted man on earth. Yet I don't think he's much of a poet, and I can't help feeling he's perhaps too much of a man, in the sense that Yeats was suggesting (as Barber quotes him here) when he said...
Uncritical Leftism. The consistent radicalism of motive has frequently brought it into conflict with Methodism's leaders and has won it such scornful epithets as "a jester in the house of Wesley." When the magazine first denounced segregation, a group of Southern bishops demanded that it cease publication. One of those who came to its defense was the late Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, who showed up at a meeting of the education board with several copies of motive under his arm. "I have read every word of these," thundered the best-known Methodist liberal...
...socialist leader who tried to avoid bloodshed by promising the Dutch full protection for their vast investments in return for freedom, but was turned down cold, a rejection so embittering to Indonesians that they turned away from Sjahrir's conciliatory position to Sukarno's militant anti-Western leftism; after a long illness; in Zurich, where he had lived since 1965, when Sukarno released him from an eight-year jail term for his continuing pro-West sentiments...