Word: partisanship
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...surprise me one bit," and reminded his listeners that "many times I have referred to the liberal leaning of some sections of the American press corps." Republican Campaign Director Clark MacGregor thought the Guild "illadvised in openly abandoning the time-honored objective of the American press to confine partisanship to editorial pages...
...publication that never bought Muskie is the New Democrat (circ. 4,000), a lively monthly devoted to the liberal wing of the Democratic Party. Editor Stephen Schlesinger, 29, admits to no clairvoyance in foreseeing Edmund Muskie's fall and the rise of George McGovern-only partisanship.* Schlesinger, the son of Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., founded the magazine in 1970 as a podium from which to preach party reform and "call attention to the dead leadership...
...Binh puts two David Copperfield kids in the middle of Vietnam horrors. It's a slight piece of social history. But it is accurate, emotionally powerful, and if it didn't preach pacifism in a Have-Have Not war, it would come very close to non-partisanship. The film's power is in the eye of Raoul Coutard, who here debuts as writer-director. American soldiers freeze in grotesque command postures. A theater explodes and its audience flees, losing intestines en route. Slum kids piss on a child-exploiting businesswoman's car. The connecting tissue doesn't equal the fragments...
...friendliness, probably even compliment the lawmakers on their high dedication to the common good. Yet the ceremonial show of civility, demanded by custom, will scarcely conceal the fact that this is an election year, and that relations between the Hill and the White House are at a peak of partisanship unmatched since Harry Truman ran against a "do-nothing" 80th Congress...
...nation, more likely to let the law jell for a time, as its predecessor had begun to do. It seems to lean toward a different Supreme Court role: providing calm at a time of dislocation and national self-questioning. Yet the Burger Court may also risk a kind of partisanship, a tendency to resist social change, favor police power and not hear the claims of minority groups, to whom the Supreme Court had recently become the most responsive branch of Government. None of this necessarily means that the Burger Court is unrealistic. It has surely read the election returns. Whether...