Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...volley cut him down. His accuser is a mitered Catholic archbishop, stiff-backed and sinister, holding a standard topped with a cross. Beneath is a Spanish crown and Siqueiros' own paraphrase of the death sentence: "Excommunication and death penalty for Miguel Hidalgo for professing and spreading exotic ideas partisan to democratic French Revolution. For social dissolution and trying to make Mexico independent of Spanish Empire. In consequence, a traitor to his country...
...NAACP group had refused the film, they could expect sympathies, since Robeson has proved himself a traitor to the good name of the American Negro. But the U.N. Council presents a particularly lame reason for chickening out of the Emperor. Its exhibition will make them a "partisan" organization, they say, and thus restrict their ability to get UN diplomats as speakers. Disregarding the patent observation that the film's content is as controversial as a baby chick, this argument assumes an incredibly naive view of the UN itself. There are, in fact, few institutions more controversial than the UN. Patriotic...
...station WPIX with deadly seriousness: "I love baseball, and I'm never going to make it the butt of my jokes." Joe broadcasts pre-game and post-game interviews, plus three innings of play-by-play on TV, and two innings on radio. His delivery is intensely partisan ("Come on, you Yankees, get those bats off your shoulders!"), and he sometimes drifts from the action on the diamond into patriotic outbursts ("I've seen plenty of other countries, but believe me, America is the best of the lot. America, I love...
...coronation to call a "snap general election." But the P. M. himself is said to feel that such exploitation of the coronation would boomerang. Having gone through three general elections in eight years, he is convinced that "the country is sick of elections" and wants a rest from partisan strife. This is why the Churchill government has taken pains to press its denationalization and decontrol programs with calculated gentleness...
...Berlin score has been preserved almost intact. If his lyrics are somewhat flat, his melodies are spirited. "They Like Ike" the visionary number of 1949 has been replaced by "The International Rag," evidently less partisan. "You're Just in Love," which held up the show for six encores in New York, is repeated often enough to satisfy even the most dogged. And the first song, "The Hostess With the Mostes' on the Ball" is a good-natured introduction to Miss Merman and the spirit of the film...