Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is some ferment beneath the surface. In the House, liberal Democrats are attempting to make their party caucus a policymaking body. If they are successful, the liberals would substitute the caucus for the nominal leadership as the party's principal instrument of navigation. On the senior Democratic level, there is quiet talk of organizing a Senate-House leadership group that would attempt to set the party's course for both bodies. For the time being, informal fortnightly meetings are contemplated...
Still, the scholars discovered that the level of violence has persisted in the U.S., while in other countries it has abated with the march of industrialization...
...powerless people into a significant force. Despite the reservations of many whites, the East Side clergymen and the blue-chip board of New Detroit are betting it will be a force for good. Says Baldwin: "We are nobodies. Frank Ditto is a nobody. We must come together at this level-a thousand nobodies...
...decades held society in an atmosphere of constant fear and terror, the concentration camps in which millions of innocent people perished, the criminal policy on nationalities under which whole nations were repressed, the blind alley our national economy had reached, the stagnation of science and culture, the low wage level, the low consumption level, the catastrophic housing crisis and many monstrous manifestations of the Stalinist dictatorship were condemned...
...after his favorite political opponent. Asked why his party disavowed the militant New Left, whom Frenchmen have nicknamed Gauchos, Duclos replied: "Gauchos, but they're American!" He seldom lost the chance to rumble mechanically against inhuman labor laws and big banks, but he performed best on the personal level, assuring listeners that, as a onetime Catholic, he "understands the spirit" of believers. Duclos was the first Communist ever to run for chief of state in popular elections. Though his success was primarily a personal triumph, he proved that the Communists' strength in legislative elections can translate into national...