Word: partisanship
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...tradition in the voice of the nation as a whole, united above partisan politics. Last week, at a luncheon in Alsace-Lorraine, France's aging (75) President Rene Coty rose and spoke his mind on a subject that has provoked some of the most bitter partisanship in the history of French politics-Algeria...
Time was when a change in political administrations meant bad news for the status quo, as new people and new policies descended on the seats of government. But in these calm days of courtesy and bi-partisanship, the old Jacksonian gusto seems to have been eclipsed by the politics of gentility. Nevertheless, the show must go on, if only to amuse the faithful. And this showmanship has been no-where more apparent recently than on Beacon Hill during the last two months, as the young Democratic Hercules, Foster Furcolo, waves his imaginary broom through the marble corridors of Boston...
...vehemence with which the entire campaign had been waged and the intense lines of partisanship which had split the HYRC were clearly evident from the moment that President Donald P. Hodel '57 rapped the gavel. The presidential nominating speeches, made by James D. Gibbons '57 for Smith and by Hodel for Stalker were greeted with occasional whistles and hisses which brought about several appeals from the floor for order...
...Ikeman-but Ohioans still thought of him as a bell-ringing buffoon at the 1952 Republican convention, and they overwhelmingly backed Governor Frank Lausche, a great vote-getter who managed to project his own honesty and humility (but little more), and thus seemed to rise above political partisanship...
Then, while some of his audience wept, he counseled against downheartedness, "for there is radiance and glory in the darkness could we but see, and to see, we have only to look.'' The voters of the U.S. had made their choice "in a vigorous partisan contest," and partisanship "is democracy's life blood." Ultimately, "our cause will prevail"; until then, "there are things more precious than political victory-there is the right to political contest." And, said he with a wry grin, "as for me, let there be no tears. If I lost an election...