Word: leftist
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Then he tumbled into another trench of depression and Nembutal. Ordinary politics couldn't reconcile Genet's leftist attachment to the dispossessed and his infatuation with a world of muscular order. The civic-minded gay activism he saw emerging in his later years was too middle class for him, one more sign that vice wasn't what it used to be. Implacable tough guys were more to his taste, the Black Panthers and the terrorist Baader Meinhof Group or the Palestinians, a whole nation of the dispossessed. By instinct he submitted moral problems to an aesthetic judgment. He opposed attempts...
...wounded by him. So you had to overcome that before they'd open up and talk about their feelings...I've made a few friends out of the Genet crowd. Mostly his friends I found rather somber people. I think he went for a certain kind of Stalinist-leaning leftist intellectual that isn't exactly my idea of a barrelfull of laughs...
...perpetrators disciplined. During the academic year that ended in June, there were 12 major incidents of U.S. campus papers stolen or destroyed because their contents transgressed political correctness. This form of censorship hits most at "alternative" newspapers -- a term that in the '60s and early '70s automatically denoted a leftist competitor to the main campus organ, but that today means one leaning to the right. More than 100 such papers challenge what they see as liberal orthodoxy. The climate of political correctness has diverted the eternal spirit of adolescent rebellion clear across the political spectrum...
This is work of undeniable power. After seeing the playlets on their long way to Broadway, after reading them as well, and even when sharing little of their ardent leftist politics, one can still be reduced to tears by Fire in the Hole, in which the destitute risk death and win their battle to form a union. At previews last week, audiences offered sustained and frequent applause -- most intense, curiously, at the start of the second three hours, as though they belatedly realized that the emotional impact of the first half had muted their show of enthusiasm...
...just been killed in a township. The student had devoted herself to helping the cause of South African Blacks, and had been escorting a few of her fellow Black students home when she was approached and savagely killed by several youths. Her murderers belonged to one of the leftist groups committed to promoting discord for their own agenda. Ironically, they accused her of being a white racist as they killed...