Word: partisanship
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...decaying medium could re-establish its connection with our public lives -- and our secret ones. His elegant disdain helped sweep the boards of the dusty verse drama that then passed for high seriousness, and of the cobwebbed comic conventions that served only a low commercial cunning. His eloquent partisanship opened the doors not just for a new moral consciousness but for fresh forms of theatrical literacy, like Tom Stoppard's bedazzling overstatements and Harold Pinter's hypnotic understatements. At Tynan's memorial service in 1980, the former turned to the critic's children and said, "For those...
Dole said: "The Senate's ready to move ahead. I don't see any partisanship...
Whatever the countdown to the Bork vote, Reagan seems determined to keep pushing for his nominee. The President, who was said to be dismayed at the "partisanship and political savagery" of the anti-Bork campaign, made three speeches for his nominee last week. He also devoted his Saturday radio address to the Bork battle. "Tell your Senators to resist the politicization of our court system," Reagan urged listeners. "Tell them you support the appointment of Judge Robert Bork." Administration sources said the President is even considering a televised speech to the nation to call for Bork's confirmation. Declared Washington...
...another, he is still identified as one of the commanders who ordered the military to quell the 1980 uprising in Kwangju that resulted in at least 180 deaths. For all this, however, Roh seems convinced that his best chance is to run as the man who put aside partisanship and found a way out of a national political crisis. "He never would have announced this thing unless he thought he had a chance under it," says a Western diplomat. Because of Roh or Chun or both, South Korea suddenly has a chance as well...
...Jose Napoleon Duarte, who has confessed that he too watches the Swaggart TV show. In Chile, he met Dictator Augusto Pinochet and later urged his audience in Santiago to "pray for General Pinochet and his beautiful wife." Swaggart usually avoids overt politicking in his Latin American sermons and disclaims partisanship. But the Rev. Jaime Wright, a U.S. Presbyterian working in Brazil, agreeing with Roman Catholic critics, charges that Swaggart and like-minded Evangelicals are giving "uncritical support" to oppressive right-wing regimes...