Word: leftwinger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adlai Stevenson's float through the air pointed up the serious problems involved in negotiating such political acrobatics. His strongest support in Florida's primary came largely from the violently segregationist Third Congressional District in the northwest (Tallahassee). There, Stevenson's supporters, including veteran (eight terms) U.S...
When Novelist Albert Camus (The Plague, The Stranger) wrote his essay on The Myth of Sisyphus in 1940 (now fully published in the U.S. for the first time), the agony of Western civilization and the German occupation of France seemed to make deadly plain what such Nordic philosophers as Heidegger...
Readers were understandably surprised since the Trib customarily brooks no "internationalist," "pro-Eisenhower" or "leftwing" nonsense in its pages. For 30 years, the paper has faithfully expressed the views of its eccentric publisher, Colonel Robert R. McCormick. It still runs no syndicated political columnists because there are none whose views...
"Tonight," announced Joe, "I shall give you the history of the Democrat candidate for the presidency, who endorses and would continue the suicidal Kremlin-directed policies of this nation." McCarthy referred to Wilson Wyatt, "Stevenson's personal manager . . . former head of the leftwing Americans for Democratic Action [who] condemned...
The Post did not gracefully concede this. No Postman took it harder than Max Lerner, a onetime Williams College political science professor who writes like a leftwing Pegler when his theories are crossed. "I recall," wrote Lerner, "a little scene from the Cleveland meeting . . . After the Nixon broadcast and before...