Word: leftist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...listen-you-guys" approach, he talks and looks more like a high-school science teacher who coaches basketball on the side. He has the cyclonic attack of an advertising salesman. A charter member (and this week the new national chairman) of Americans for Democratic Action, a coalition of leftist, non-Communist intellectuals and displaced New Dealers, he has little use for the old party-machine school of politics...
...Michael's adolescent super-morality convinces him, as he tells his mother, that Sir John "was vile, and you weakened." To snarl things further, Michael's leftist Canadian "organization" believes Sir John to be a "menace to world industrial reorganization," and just one small step above a Fascist. Sizing up the dramatic possibilities, Michael becomes a moping, moody Hamlet. He believes Sir John murdered his father and accuses his mother of "living in sin" with Fletcher...
Griffin stated last night that Professors Shapley and Mather "let themselves be used by Leftist organizations...
Asked how he determines whether a person is a Leftist or not (he declined to discuss anyone in terms of Communism), Griffin explained he reads the person's works, discusses the person with others, and looks up articles about whomever he is studying...
...save raw materials." Said a Red soldier in Tsinan: "In the villages we have to eliminate feudalism and boost production, and in the cities we have to protect industry and commerce so that production may be increased." Within Communist ranks, leaders announced "self-examination conferences" for "correction of leftist tendencies...