Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Former council Chairman Brian R. Melendez '86 wrote the letter during his term in office, spent $162 of the council's money on it, but never got around to distributing it. The new council Chairman, Brian C. Offutt '87, balked at affixing his official signature to a blatantly partisan statement on a divisive issue. Offutt submitted the dispute to the full council on Nov. 3, and his argument carried...
Katsias made several stops that turned roars from the partisan crowd into stunned murmers...
During the first century and a half of this republic's existence, nobody really expected the press to be fair. Papers were mostly shrill, scurrilous and partisan. In the Hearst press, Roosevelt's New Deal was constantly referred to, not only on the editorial page but in the news columns, as the "raw deal." Despite this repeated hammering, readers kept re-electing Franklin D. Roosevelt anyway. Roosevelt has since won his revenge. It's called the Fairness Doctrine...
...green-clad Dartmouth horde will run onto the Stadium turf this afternoon to the jeers of partisan Harvard fans...
...fault Le Guin for a lack of ambition. But her book erects several serious hurdles. Readers are likely to respond to its argument along partisan lines. Those who believe that man began stumbling toward destruction when he stopped being a noble savage will find their fondest dreams fulfilled. Watch for a Kesh cult to spring up on college campuses. Others, who think primitive societies formed a nasty, brutish and short phase in the evolution toward civility, will be unmoved by the serene monotony of Kesh life...