Word: partisanship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shakespeare has spent much time visiting USIA branches, where staffers have been impressed by his enthusiasm and energy. But in some areas, his tunnel-vision partisanship has caused friction, especially since many of the 10,000 members of USIA are liberal Democrats left over from former Administrations. The widely respected information officer in one Communist country was replaced for being too much the scholarly diplomat and not enough the activist type. The editor of an intellectual journal was warned to abandon his "terrific liberal bias." Grumbled one veteran from the Democratic years: "Shakespeare wants gung-ho Kiwanis boosters in Communist...
...turn their hands to political cartoon, savage caricature and posterish polemic. Hundreds of black-and-white illustrations do justice to the likes of Jacques Callot, Lucas Cranach, George Cruikshank, Daumier, Courbet, Rouault, Käthe Kollwitz and George Grosz. Fascinating, especially for an age of rage, despair and pungent partisanship...
...newly strenuous notes of partisanship were sounded on other fronts. George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, cheered Agnew as the "champion of the old culture that values historic and democratic principles." In Milwaukee, Attorney General John Mitchell blamed public mistrust of Government primarily on "the deception which was practiced over the last few years" by the Johnson Administration. Transportation Secretary John Volpe drove well off his official road to damn a majority of the organizers of last week's renewed antiwar protest as "Communist or Communist-inspired...
...pursue the same course. Johnson was loud, Nixon would be soft. Johnson was secretive and deceptive, Nixon open and candid. Johnson played cronyism while Nixon would seek counsel from friend and foe. Johnson became the symbol of a political manipulator, but Nixon would abandon his old style of partisanship to strike a pose as statesman of all the people. The script said in large letters: AVOID LYNDON JOHNSON'S MISTAKES...
...Barber evolved a labeling system that types each man according to his character (positive or negative) and his way of life (active or passive). By these standards, he characterized President Taft as "passive-positive," Truman as "active-positive" and Eisenhower as "passive-negative." Lest anyone accuse him of showing partisanship, Barber listed, along with Nixon, under the heading of "active-negative" a man whose "style failed him" and who knew "the disorientation of an expert middleman elevated above the ordinary political marketplace"-Lyndon Baines Johnson...