Word: leftward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COMBAT considers as its 'target areas' the Old Left and the New Left; the rebellious student groups; the peaceniks and the draft-card burners; leftward-drifting churchmen; the 'marchers'; the hippies; sections of the communications media." William F. Buckley Jr., suave guardian of what's Right in America, sounded uncommonly exercised in his communique drumming up $24-a-year subscriptions for his new newsletter, COMBAT. The twice-a-month publication will tackle the task of diagnosing "the extent to which America's current sickness is the result of organized infection...
Velasco, a 75-year-old law professor, has been chosen President five times since 1934. Three times Ecuador's army has turned him out of office prematurely, charging his governments with corruption, inefficiency and leftward drift. A master of demogogic oratory, he shuns all formal political parties and organizations and goes straight to the people, depending upon sheer mass appeal "Give me a balcony," he once boasted, "and I could be elected President anywhere." He does not even bother to offer voters a program "Why should I?" he asked at one campaign rally. "What this country needs...
...G.O.P. presidential nomination would 1) foreclose any hope of his winning it, and 2) seriously damage any other moderate candidate's chance. During a 1966 post-election vacation at Dorado Beach, Puerto Rico, Rockefeller outlined a plan to fuse factions in the national party from the center leftward in a "consensus" that would provide "practical alternatives to the present Administration" in both policies and a candidate. The 25 Republican Governors (now 26) were to be the spearhead of the movement, and Rockefeller soon settled on Romney as its beneficiary. Rockefeller believed himself incapable of filling that function...
While Niebuhr and some of his colleagues leaned leftward, U.S. Protestantism was politically cautious during the postwar and cold-war years. There was much emphasis on individual redemption, on "faith in faith," as exemplified by the evangelism of Billy Graham. Since then, the churches have entered a new phase of involvement and activism, of protests and politics. This latest era is not all action, as it may occasionally seem, or all emotion. In recent years the churches have evolved a body of ideas and positions notable for their wide range, their relative readiness to accept change and (on the whole...
...hardly that, but it afforded Indira Gandhi ample scope within which to woo the electorate. Her critics accuse Indira of having wobbled over the years from left to right and back again. If she recently seemed to be trending leftward, the reason probably sprang more from vote-catching considerations than from shifting convictions. For she knows that if the party fares poorly in the elections, her leadership will be challenged. Waiting for his chance is former