Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Appearing as a surprise lecturer in Richard Pipes' History 155 course, the man some may remember as the Socialist premier of Russia whom Lenin overthrew in October 1917, talked on Russia's pre-1917 parliament...
...mild swing toward the right. But the result is no foregone conclusion: not since 1832 has an incumbent British government increased its majority in a general election. The Tories are counting on the freshness of Anthony Eden's occupancy of 10 Downing Street and the divisions among their Socialist opponents to change all that...
While classmate Walter Lippmann joined the College's Socialist Club, Reed did not. Nor did he learn radicalism in class. Another classmate, the late journalist Heywood Broun was able to quip later that he himself became a Communist because he went to see the Boston Red Sox play instead of listening to his economic's professor's lecture refuting Marx. But John Reed was not interested enough in his studies to learn Marxism in the classroom...
...best argument for teaching the Law instead of practicing it, in Seavey's opinion, is the advantage of dealing with Law School students instead of clients. And the best thing about Law School students, he continues, is that "they have not yet lost their illusions. I was a socialist for six months once when i was a student. It's nice to see people with illusions, even though you know that they are illusions...
...petition filed with Surrogate William T. Collins in a New York court, Suter contended that he is a member of the Young Peoples Socialist League, and does not want the money for "moral and political reasons...