Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...retaliation for this "insult" to the Soviet people, Evtushenko was berated as a "pygmy cosmopolitan." Last month, more than 5,000 young Muscovites showed their feeling by packing around the statue of Poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. chanting: "We want Evtushenko." Their hero mounted to an improvised platform and read a poem, You Can Call Me a Communist, but which pointedly declares: "I will remain firm to the end and never become an unctuous bootlicker...
...recent interview, Gustave Solomons expressed what can be taken as the CCA campaign platform. He pledged continued progress: "We have had two good years in the School Committee. Because we had a CCA majority, we did not have the fusses that we had in the committee prior to this one." He praised two very recent curriculum advances: "We have put in a language lab, and have added an M.I.T. physics course to both Rindge and Cambridge High and Latin." And, he pledged two more reforms, both however, somewhat ill-defined: to raise teachers' salaries to the level of those...
Thus, the Labour party has identified itself with the working class, Beer stated. Therefore, the platform of the party originates in its Conference, a meeting of the local party representatives. The initiative of the party comes from its constituents...
Sharing the platform with Kilpatrick were two Southern liberals who did not view this process with such evident alarm. Hodding Carter, editor of a small-town Mississippi paper, agreed that liberalism is, and probably will remain, a "dirty word" in the South...
...Impatience. Gaitskell, a onetime economics don, also won on domestic issues. With adoption of his moderate, modern social and economic program, he routed the party's Marxian "fundamentalists," offered Britain's prosperous working class a package that was hardly more radical than the Tory platform. Over opposition from Laborites who fear that nationalization of British industry may be impeded by capitalist competition, Gaitskell clinched his victory by blocking a mischievous resolution opposing British membership in the European Common Market, and substituting a heavily conditioned but practical endorsement...