Word: pinko
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report proposing strategies for next year's election, the National Republican Senatorial Committee suggested that Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum had links to left-wing organizations during the 1940s and voters might be persuaded that his "Communist sympathies have found their way onto the Senate floor." One of his purported pinko proposals: setting up a national corporation to purchase and distribute imported...
WHEN IT CAME to raping and pillaging the works of others, no 20th-century playwright could hold a candle to Bertolt Brecht. The idiosyncratic pinko playwright ranged far and wide in his search for material to transform into his own dramas. He rivaled Shakespeare, the literary grave-robber supreme, in his audacious choice of sources. Twenties cinema, 18th century musicals, Renaissance history, Jack London stories; in Brecht's hands they all became the stuff of his proletarian "epic" theater...
...says here this guy's a pinko. We didn't cut aid to the rebel after we played quarters last night...
Walker cultivated anything but a pinko image. He placed a photo of Ronald Reagan on his desk and talked, said an associate, "like a real patriot." One day in 1979 he persuaded Debbie Aiken, then a talk-show host for a Norfolk radio station, into letting him discuss the Ku Klux Klan on her program. He claimed to be the Klan's state organizer. "He drove up to the station in a pickup truck with bodyguards," she recalls. One carried a shotgun. "Walker told me he had to be protected, that he feared for his life at all times...
...mentioned that Trillin is a columnist. He is not particularly well-known, however, because he writes his satirical columns for The Nation, the far-left weekly magazine (a "pinko rag" the author calls it, perhaps covering himself as a patriotic infiltrator for the next Red Scare) that hides in the rear racks at Out-of-Town News and has a circulation which competes neck and neck with The Crimson's. Thus the great virtue, of this predictably superb sampling of his column, Uncivil Liberties: you actually get to read the pieces, rather than hear about them second-hand from...