Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fiercely partisan Southern Democrat, Martha Truman had a tart opinion on almost everything. Her friends fondly called her "the old rebel," and shamelessly embroidered a tale of how she had said she would sleep on the floor rather than occupy the White House bed that Yankee Abraham Lincoln had slept...
...Argentina itself, Evita's tour was the talk of every town. Whether they considered her God's gift to the working class or a devil's advocate against the established order, the citizens of Argentina, who are Argentine first and partisan second, could not repress their pride in the First Lady's spectacular accomplishments...
Editors Phillips and Rahv, only survivors (both 39 years old) of the crew of young Marxists* who founded the Review in 1934, hoped for an increase in circulation too. Including its new London edition (TIME, March 10), Partisan Review sells only 7,600 copies, at 60?. Now the editors hope to hit 20,000 in the U.S. and Europe. A slightly larger format, more art work (in color) and photographs, regular departments on music, art and the theater, and "letters" from Europe's capitals may help. But Phillips and Rahv plan to keep the Review uncompromisingly a magazine...
...Originally Communist, Partisan Review suspended publication after being disillusioned by the Moscow trials, was revived as anti-Stalinist and vaguely Trotskyite, then independent Marxist, now classifies itself as "radical democratic...
When a professionally partisan trial lawyer such as Manhattan's Lloyd Paul Stryker turns biographer, he also turns defense counsel. His Andrew Johnson was a passionate defense of Lincoln's maligned successor in which spleen ran as deep as fact. Now in For the Defense he still writes like a lawyer on retainer, but his defense is framed in frank hero worship. The hero: Thomas Erskine, great 18th Century English barrister and Whig Lord Chancellor of England in the reign of George...