Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...highly partisan crowd of 20,000 crupted into limited pandemonium at approximately 4:40 p.m. as the Crimson ran out the clock. The band circled the field seven or eight times, Lloyd Jordan was lifted on tweedy shoulders, and everyone cheered his five words, though no one heard them. The smallness of the group only increased the intensity...
...know," said the Secretary with a smile, "if I were to say that. I would be accused of partisan politics...
...issue itself is the dominance of two reviews, Konrad Kaplowitz's dissection of David Riesman and James Buechler's analysis of Faulkner's Fable. The reviews are comparatively free of Advocatish pedantry and critical generalizations; they are both above the standards of the Sunday Times, the Saturday or Partisan reviews...
David Riesman, who rocketed from the internecine warfare of the Partisan Review to the cover of Time in the course of the summer, plays the part of a flea upon the body intellectual, continually spurring it on to new efforts. Like any such insect, he occasionally gets under the skin of the host upon whom he depends for existence. It is not surprising that Mr. Kaplowitz, plagued to distraction by Riesman, petulantly scolds him for lacking virtues he never attempted to possess. "Riesman's plethoric insights never come together to form a conscious, let alone conscientious stand." What flea ever...
Frederick J. Willman '56, president of the HYDC, announced that since his group was already fully committed to the Democratic candidates, it could not even consider the HLU proposal. "The Young Democrats are acting on their own this year," he said. As a partisan group they would lose their state charter were they to support a candidate who was not backed by the Democratic party in Massachusetts...