Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...welcomed the Pathet Lao regime that replaced the monarchy in 1975, assuming that their new rulers would be as typically languid as the old ones. But the gray-uniformed Pathet Lao-backed by 15,000 Vietnamese troops and 500 Soviet advisers-immediately began building the country according to a socialist blueprint...
Apart from a few street fights and scattered bombing incidents, the campaign was peaceful and enthusiastic, carried out by the candidates with gentlemanly regard for the rules of the new game. Socialist González, who favors open-necked shirts and casual jackets, brought American-style campaigning to Spain, jetting about the country to rallies in a chartered plane. Seeking to establish his party as the major alternative, he concentrated his fire on Fraga's Popular Alliance and Suárez's coalition. He charged that 80% of the U.C.D. candidates were interchangeable with those of Fraga's party?like "Pepsi...
...many other places, the suppression of legitimate, moderate opposition leads to radicalization. Marxism in the black African countries, plus obvious Soviet attempts at penetration, is a very legitimate worry for South Africa-and the U.S. Some sort of socialist, one-party government is inevitable for many black African countries at this stage, but that does not mean Soviet control or even influence. Far from it. As Moscow has discovered, Africa's mercurial nations make difficult ground for political colonization. They are fiercely divided among themselves. The one thing that unites them is opposition to the racist regimes of southern...
...Victorians, William Morris perhaps came closest to filling the outline of that egregious myth, the Renaissance Man. Only his socialist convictions made him turn down the post of Poet Laureate after Tennyson died. He translated the Icelandic sagas into English, wrote News from Nowhere, one of the best Utopian novels in the history of that genre, and was a charter member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. With John Ruskin, he was an influential agitator for maintaining the integrity of the architectural past; dozens of developers and architectural opportunists had cause to fear the voice of the Anti-Scrape, as Morris...
...yards of chintz and flowered wallpaper. This forceful and articulate genius had receded into a green limbo where Pre-Raphaelite ghosts lisped harmlessly to one another. He was posthumously seen as a backward-looking fabulist, a quaint Victorian period piece. The visions of a great radical socialist were diminished and finally lost. Yet in life they absorbed his greatest energies. "There is no salvation for the unemployed," he wrote in 1887, "but in the general combination of the workers for the freedom of labor-for the REVOLUTION." This belief permeates the 24 volumes of Morris' collected works. Rebellion...