Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still appears, but it seldom makes waves. At its zenith, though, it was home to some of America's brightest talents, from the novelist Mary McCarthy to the poet Delmore Schwartz to the critic Lionel Trilling. In its pages, tiresome Marxist posturing coexisted with the best of literary modernism; the editors, Macdonald perhaps most of all, believed that politics was of no consequence when it came to high art. Thus PR printed short stories by Kafka and poetry and essays by Anglo-Catholic royalist T.S. Eliot...
There they go again. The Crimson staff, spouting their tired Marxist rhetoric, are once again lamenting the sorrowful state of some of the world's best-paid clerical and technical workers. So why are we not crying...
...chronic disease." He had passed his university exams when the North won its victory and the Americans flew away, and therefore, as a suspect intellectual, he was sentenced to a re-education camp. Brutality in the camp was casual and causeless; what was learned in addition to parroted Marxist self-criticism was fear, hunger and aching homesickness. Jade and the others trapped rats for their guards' suppers and stayed alive by holding back some of the meat...
...figures I've known in my ephemeral time at Harvard, he's the one who's done the most to make students think. (Of course, second prize goes to "Toaster Tutor" Noel Ignatiev, who criticized an appliance and left hundreds of discussions in his wake. And he's a Marxist...
...case, the U.S. has not been tinkering with situations in Bosnia and Somalia in order to stem a Marxist tide. If anything, despots Milosevic and Aidid stray toward the other, fascist end of the political spectrum. But the other facet of the war in Vietnam--the U.S.'s long, intractable involvement--does merit some fear of repetition...