Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem of U.S. military defenses, he said that it was "absolutely essential" that the nation "take its own particular position in the world" and create a military establishment "suited to its own requirements." He advocated "bona fide" U.S. membership in the U.N.-affiliated International Labor Organization. Turned to partisan politics by a reporter's question, he dismissed, with a shrug and a grimace, a suggestion that the resounding defeat of Governor Allan Shivers in the recent Democratic delegate battles in Texas could be construed as a repudiation of his Administration. Asked for comment on Estes Kefauver's -suggestion...
...aging man: his sight was failing; he was tired. Last week he went to Lexington, Va., to keynote the traditional mock Democratic National Convention at Washington & Lee University. Before a capacity crowd in the university gymnasium, he again stood up to give a scathing, ultra-partisan Democratic speech that, largely because of the humor in it, would not offend even the most partisan Republicans. Looking back through history, he credited all the good in the U.S. to Democrats, all the bad to the G.O.P...
...Sane Society and Herbert Marcuse's Eros and Civilization, attempt to apply Freud's insights to our current culture. Both authors, who violently disagree with one another, agree at least in condemming the "manipulative" or "repressive" life we force ourselves into. Stanley Hyman, in the Spring issue of Partisan Review, declares that Freud again made an understanding of the tragic side of human life possible. Hyman also criticizes what he believes to be a current literary tendency to overlook tragic themes...
Supplying a guide and safe-conduct passes, Moranino sent Strasserra and four other non-Communist partisan leaders off into the mountains for Switzerland. At the trial, the ex-partisan guide admitted that on Moranino's orders, he led the five men along an Alpine road to a brush-covered hillock, where six Moranino men waited. Spotting them, Strasserra cried: "We're friends. We are going to Switzerland." He was still waving his safe-conduct pass and talking when bullets cut him short. Destroying the evidence, the Reds buried their victims hastily beside the road, took their money...
Political Crime. Italian Communism marshaled its biggest guns in defense of their hero, led by Partisan Chief Luigi Longo, now a Deputy. But, faced with the evidence, the Communist defense had to acknowledge that the victims were neither spies nor Fascists, and that it had been a "tragic mistake." Retorted the public prosecutor: "It was a dry and cold-blooded common crime . . . infamous, indecent, cruel murder...