Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...refused to endorse any political candidates in the November elections, preferring instead to present a united front on the Vietnam issue, uncomplicated by partisan views...
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...emphasis on that single issue, it can unite all those who are against the Vietnam war, Lieberman explained. "Polls show that 79 per cent of Americans want to see the U.S. pull out of Vietnam," he said, "but many of these people are for Nixon. In a non-partisan antiwar demonstration, we will be able to include these supporters of Nixon. We must educate them...
Lieberman admitted that he did not know of anyone in the SMC or at the National Peace Action Coalition meeting who was a Nixon supporter, but defended the organization's non-partisan stance as the most effective way to end the Vietnam...
Burg and Feifer's direct attempts at criticizing Solzhenitsyn's work fall similarly on several counts. They make partisan defenses of his work which occasionally take an extraordinary form, such as the collaborate justification of August 1914 in terms of political orthodoxy. The biographers also have an unfortunate tendency to quote other people's superlatives as a justification for their own exaltation of Solzhenitsyn. The consensus of critics can no more save a piece of fiction than the vote of the Soviet Writers Union can condemn it. The authors' failure to give the sort of attention to the actual novels...