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Word: leftwingers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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The conference had started well enough for Kinnock. He easily defeated a left-wing attempt to replace him and won endorsement of a key policy document for reforming the party and making it electable again -- mainly by forsaking the goal of wholesale nationalizations. Then he delivered a confident, well- applauded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain Man in the Middle | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

While in high school, Theoharis started a leftwing student group, which built a shantytown and worked in soup kitchens--and she speculates that Harvard accepted her because of it.

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: To Catch A Fly | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

Right-wing groups at Harvard have traditionally expressed themselves by inviting highly unpopular speakers in order to provoke political opponents. Leftwing groups, on the other hand, have traditionally expressed themselves by protesting. The University traditionally has walked a line, trying to defuse the effectiveness of both these methods by shutting...

Author: By John J. Murphy, | Title: Free Speech Impasse | 12/8/1987 | See Source »

Levinson said the show went on as planned yesterday despite the wind and rain because it was part of a celebration commemorating the birthday of Dorothy Day, the deceased founder of the singers' parent organization, the Catholic Worker. Day, a journalist, communist, and convert to Catholicism, established the organization 50...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Protesters Sing For Divestment | 11/6/1985 | See Source »

YET, STRANGELY, Epstein himself clearly judges novelists on extra-literary, political grounds, admitting, "I may be blinded by my own politics." This is an understatement. After reading a sentence such as "Like the fly and the dunghill, left-wing sociology and left-wing sociology and leftwing fiction feed upon and...

Author: By John P. Wauck, | Title: Epstein's Silver Bullets | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

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