Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democrats, we feel that this is a legitimately non-partisan issue, and one on which Democrats may justifiably disagree. Our position is in no way inconsistent with the platform of the party or the public views of the President. In fact, we consider ourselves the preserver of the ideals of equality of representation and free election on which our Democratic Party was founded. Robert Guy Erwin '80 Dana Leifer '80 Charles Elson...
...kind of a self-respecting baseball fan, you're either a National Leaguer or an American Leaguer. No way you can have it both ways; you're partisan to either one or the other. For me, well...
...this same unshakeable world-weariness. They find themselves in the thick of Third World liberation struggles, but somehow never take the politics seriously. They fall in love, but always with the assumption that love will never last. In fits of decency they even relinquish their ideological aloofness to take partisan stands, but never so much out of conviction as out of a shrugging sense that if you have to go about the tiresome business of living, you might as well do it with honor. They try praying it out, sinning it out, killing, conspiring and spying it out. But that...
...Marchais claimed that the left's score would have been higher had the Socialists agreed to Communist proposals for updating the left's Common Program, including a sweeping nationalization of industry. Mitterrand offered his own explanation for the poor showing: "The Communist Party, acting in its own partisan interests, had launched an unjust and inopportune polemical attack on the Socialists that broke the dynamism of the union of the left...
...impartial press is radically wrong. In even the most straight-forward reporting there is always a subtle slant, or room for interpretation, and a newspaper will betray its inclinations in a thousand small ways. We hear that the press must be "objective," because it is "powerful" and can influence "partisan" politics. But the press has never lacked power and political influence; only now power is concentrated and therefore more formidable. What the call for "objectivity" boils down to is the call for moderation. When the press rocks the "middle" boat, it is not "objective." The radical is not "objective...