Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam speech he honored the patriotism of his critics-and then impugned it by remarking: "North Viet Nam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that." While there is much room for thoughtful criticism of television news, Agnew's blast was partisan and intemperate, and left a certain impression that the issue would never have been raised had the networks backed the President. Dean Burch, newly confirmed head of the Federal Communications Commission, raised doubts about the preservation of the agency's traditional independence of the Executive Branch when he enthusiastically applauded Agnew...
...powerful if oversimplified introduction to the political and moral morass of Vietnam, In the Year of the Pig is ultimately confounded by its own sense of outrage. Such a partisan representation of history is better known by the much-abused term propaganda, and its message gets across to those who come into the theater already in sympathy with what...
Earlier today at the White House, a bi-partisan group of Representatives and Senators had told Nixon that a Congressional majority supports his peace plan. The House gave Nixon a slanting ovation when be said that, in the face of threats to American and global security, "We are not Democrats, we are not Republicans, we are Americans...
...center of it all are the ballot counters-some 120 of them, mostly elderly ladies, half of whom are Democats and half Republicans (in order to keep the non-partisan election nonpartisan). In between counting ballots, some just sit quietly and munch the free coffee and doughnuts or stare at the bleak walls of the auditorium, but most gossip-about their children, their illnesses, the weather and, this year, the demonstrations at M.I.T. (which they didn't seem to like...
...said with a sort of locker-room bonhomie: "So, Fred, don't you come around." With a bit more edge in his voice, Borch shot back: "And don't you come around." Comments such as these provoked one of the strike leaders to charge that Shultz was partisan to G.E. and demand that he resign...