Word: leftist
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...days of leftist academics bullying ROTC cadets are numbered," said Ron Robinson, president of Young America's Foundation, a conservative political action group that helped Pombo prepare the bill...
...servants who make up an important part of the party's base; he also enjoyed the support of Rocardians, Delorists and others who hope to ``renovate'' the party by replacing its class-based ideology with a more modern, social democratic approach. The beetle-browed Emmanuelli, with his old-style leftist rhetoric, was more attractive to working-class voters and had the support of most party stalwarts, including former Prime Minister and longtime Jospin enemy Laurent Fabius. Emmanuelli's hold on the party machinery was so strong that many observers thought he had a lock on the nomination, even though polls...
...speech itself Ms. Streisand addressed the topic of "The Artist as Citizen." During the course of her address, Streisand toed the typical leftist Hollywood line with its emphasis on freedom of expression. She used her time to call for more public funding of the arts, to defend liberalism and the counter-culture and to attack the Republican Party. In particular, she complained about the Republican Party's stance on many social issues, and its emphasis on traditional values...
DIED. ANDRE FROSSARD, 80, intellectual editorial writer for the French daily Le Figaro and noted Roman Catholic author of such books as Defense of the Pope (1993) that chronicled his close relationship with the present Pontiff; in Versailles. Frossard was an atheist and leftist in his youth, but, as he recalled in his 1968 best seller God Exists and I Met Him, he became a sudden Catholic convert...
...have a subconscious desire to decivilize ourselves? Every generation has to rebel against the previous one, but all the good things to rebel against--the establishment of the 50s, the wide-eyed leftist political awareness of the 60s, the polyester disco-life of the 70s, the materialistic success drive of the 80s--have already been taken. Grunge-angst, having dispensed with "Greed is good" in the early 90s, now leaves the cutting edge nothing to rebel against but flannel, and what kind of a statement would that be? Nothing is left but to rebel against order itself, to embrace chaos...