Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chief among the new shrimpers is Peter Shayne, 46, a Los Angeles native. Shayne set up a sea urchin processing plant in Chile in 1968, but was expelled by the government of Marxist President Salvador Allende in 1970 as an unwelcome American businessman. Shayne eventually wound up in Ecuador with $20,000 in his pocket and decided to go into the shrimp-packing business; in 1974 he started his first shrimp farm. Now a millionaire, Shayne is one of dozens of wealthy shrimp farmers in Ecuador...
...room so as not to embarrass the guests. This was in the mid-thirties, and Hammett was at the height of his work--and of his political calling. Ever since Red Harvest his upbringing and sojourns among the scum that preyed on the poor had made him a devoted Marxist and remained devoted, giving time, money and writing to groups which sought to stamp out anti-Semitism and Fascism...
...jail once for refusing to cooperate with one such committee and though the sentence was only for contempt of court, the time in prison irrevocably destroyed his health. Then, he was out again, only to be hauled in front of more committees. Hammett had always claimed to be a Marxist and a Socialist--and put no faith in the Fascism that increasingly crept into Stalin's Russia. But such subtleties were lost on the zealots. Marxism was considered synonymous with godless, atheist Ivans. The labor movements of the '20s and '30s simply did not translate...
...Nine-tenths of my vocabulary I have never heard spoken," he writes. Unsurprisingly, Abbott is ingenuous about a worldwide Marxist revolution and hysterically partisan about "pigs" (guards). Yet his letters belong with the best prison literature, not because of their accounts of atrocity, but for their disturbing picture of daily life behind bars...
...French voters have just given us." Associate Editor Thomas A. Sancton, who wrote the cover story, spent five years in Paris, working as a freelance journalist and completing a doctorate in French history. Sums up Historian Sancton: "I see Mitterrand in the tradition of 19th century socialist reformers, neither Marxist nor revolutionary, who sought to make égalité a real thing...