Word: rad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...removed from Wallace's attacks on "pointy-headed" bureaucrats, though Brown is more cerebral and lacks the Alabaman's folk venom. The California Governor is not so much concerned with the "little man" as with Everyman. With a slight twist on Spiro Agnew's "rad-libs," Brown's supporters might be called "rad-cons...
...invited by Mao Tse-tung's government to lead a delegation of American women on a tour of Chi na. Although MacLaine was photo graphed in a bell-bottomed Mao outfit, her group could hardly be called rad ical chic. Among others it included a Puerto Rican, a Navajo, a black civil rights worker from Mississippi, a white George Wallace supporter from Texas, a Republican, a psychologist and a 12-year-old girl. There was also a four-woman camera crew who filmed a rec ord of the trip to produce a 74-minute documentary entitled The Other Half...
...time," the unaffiliated rad said loftily, suggesting by his intonation that anyone who did so had absorbed the work ethic of monopoly capital as to be worthless for whatever revolutionary purpose he professed to serve. "I do it by length. Thirty-three and a half pages a night. I count pictures as half a page." One-upsmanship goes on at Harvard, too, and this conversation would not have been impossible at a Harvard demonstration. But it might have been less likely, just as there were probably fewer people at Harvard than in many other places who denounced demonstrators for their...
...most dedicated radicals were still around, and so as a putative member of the first category I occupied myself by listening to the putative members of the second, who were running around trying to convert one another. Finally three of the most dedicated missionaries--one an unaffiliated rad; one from the Socialist Workers Party, which is the oldest Trotskyist organization in the United States; and one from Progressive Labor, which took over SDS a few years back and which used to be Maoist but has now decided that Mao is a tool of the bosses--bumped into each other, smack...
...replied, "about an hour and a half or two hours." The Socialist Worker turned pale. "What about you?" he said finally, turning to the unaffiliated rad, who I guess he hoped would either top the guy from PL or suggest that he was a liar, in either case letting the questioner off the hook...