Word: murrays
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...names of the men who were attracted to Marxism in their youth during the twenties and thirties reads almost like a roster of influential thinkers in modern America: Daniel Boorstin, Sidney Hook, Daniel Bell, Ernest Hemingway, Edmund Wilson, Granville Hicks, Reinhold Niebuhr, Daniel Aaron, and Murray Kempton, to name a few. Most of them ended up as respectable liberals. But even more intriguing than these liberals are those ex-Marxists who made a complete about-face, ending up as right-wingers. Smaller in number, they have been at least as important to conservatives as the others have been to liberal...
...random sample of 20 Tufts undergraduates agreed with Susan T. Murray, Tufts '76, who said, "I'm very pleased and happy, because from what I've heard, he seems to be a fantastic person and a really neat...
...UMWA president for 40 years, was a formidable adversary in any contract negotiation, and he was scared of nothing. When the UMWA struck in 1942, Franklin Roosevelt threatened to bring troops in to mine the coal. Lewis, who had split with CIO president and one-time close associate Philip Murray in 1940 over Roosevelt's third-term bid, said in his gravelly voice, "Let them dig coal with bayonets...
...Bryan Cook C 20 1 3 4 2 0 Charlie Petersen W 11 1 0 1 0 0 Peter Owen W 7 0 1 1 6 0 Franco Scalamandre D 2 0 1 1 0 0 Wiz Wyatt W 7 0 0 0 0 0 Murray Dea W 2 0 0 0 2 0 John Dunderdale W 1 0 0 0 0 0 Brian Petrovek G 23 0 0 0 2 0 John Aiken G 6 0 0 0 2 0 HARVARD G 26 134 223 357 315 13 OPPONENTS...
Editorial writers, Columnist Murray Kempton once wrote, are the men who come out of the hills to shoot the wounded after the battle. For some time, many American thinkers have been picking through the still-smoking carnage and rubbish of the '60s, finishing off ideas -for example, Consciousness III and the millenarian pretensions of "the movement." This is not necessarily a dishonorable exercise, although sometimes it is a little too easy, like hunting from a helicopter. But there is a danger in it. A repugnance for the Yippie idiocies of the '60s can too often turn into...