Word: politicoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turned the most important party bosses against her. Powerful Railways Minister S. K. Patil was upset over the elevation of Chavan, a rival in Bombay politics. Patil is one of the three kingmakers who comprise the "Syndicate" that has often controlled Congress Party appointments. The other two-West Bengal Politico Atulya Ghosh and Transportation Minister Sanjiva Reddy-were also upset by Indira's sudden show of independence. If they are still angry about it after next February's national elections, they just might try to edge the proud lady Prime Minister quietly...
...needn't have. The 1960 bestseller (The Centurions) by Jean Larteguy described with a certain politico-military sophistication how French colonels, beaten in Indo-China, applied terrorist tactics to the struggle for Algeria. From this epic theme, Director Mark Robson has derived one of those big bad action pictures in which the explosions look frighteningly real but unfortunately don't kill off the actors fast enough...
...opinion, TIME missed the point about Bertolt Brecht. The U.S. Congress and American journalism regarded him as both stubborn and Marxist. But he wasn't. In his lifelong search for a politico-economic system that would not suppress but enlighten human goodness, he became disenchanted with Marxism, as he had earlier become disenchanted with the capitalism of his day. Brecht's view of mankind was optimistic. His search sprang from a comparison of the goodness of man with the badness of man's economic and political systems. His drama demands that we think about the "existence problem...
VICTORIAN SCANDAL, by Roy Jenkins. The Dilke Case was the Profumo Affair of the Victorian era, a politico-sexual scandal that rocked an administration and blasted the career of the man who at 42 had already been designated as Gladstone's successor. The story is authoritatively told by Historian Roy Jenkins, Home Secretary in Britain's Labor government...
Still, for years the College has tolerated student government of one kind or another. And student politicians have had to tolerate the profound disinterest aroused by their every utterance. One politico, Howie Phillips, found this too difficult. In 1960 he piloted the Harvard Student Council into the mainstream of Richard Nixon's presidential campaign, and the HSC promptly sank...