Word: leftist
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...work was highly influential from the 1950s until the late 1960s, when it began to draw fire from Marxist and other leftist critics who said Parsons' scholarship about the stability of systems masked a conservative defense of the status...
Several of Japan's small but active radical leftist groups pledged to disrupt the ceremonies, including the Kakurokyo, or Revolutionary Workers' Association. This group claimed responsibility for an explosion several weeks ago at a Shinto shrine related to the emperor...
...seventh-floor Secretary's office at the State Department watching Bush conduct his first press conference as President. "Pull up your tie, George," says Baker affectionately to the TV screen. "And be careful with the F.M.L.N. question." But no one asks about the peace proposal offered by the leftist guerrilla group in El Salvador that calls itself the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, so Baker responds to an imagined query. He has changed course...
...Quayle warned Salvadoran military officers and rightist politicians that the recent upsurge in political murders must be reversed if the U.S. is to continue pumping $545 million a year into the country. Quayle also encouraged Salvador's President Jose Napoleon Duarte to reconsider his rejection of the leftist rebels' request that the March elections be postponed so they can take part...
...extraordinary confession, reporter A. Kent MacDougall says that during his 24 years as a journalist he was a secret leftist "boring from within...