Word: strong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact is that during nearly 40 years dominated for the most part by activist, innovative Presidents, Congress grew accustomed to reacting to executive initiatives rather than originating major legislation. During the relatively quiescent Eisenhower years, Sam Rayburn in the House and Lyndon Johnson in the Senate provided strong party leadership, giving the opposition Democrats a measure of cohesion and guidance. Speaker John McCormack and Senate Leader Mike Mansfield offer no comparable direction today. Illinois Democrat Roman Pucinski complains: "The Speaker never intended to be the party leader, and he doesn't seek it. The D S G. [Democratic Study...
...Committee Secretary Konstantin Katushev is in charge of relations with ruling Communist parties, while Boris Ponomarev attends to the affairs of the nonruling parties, and both are busy all year long as hosts or traveling salesmen. Their emissaries try to influence developments within the parties. After Luigi Longo's strong stand against the invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Embassy in Rome distributed a pamphlet criticizing the Italian party leader ?and cut back on aid to the Italians...
LEADERS of the 75 Communist parties meeting in Moscow-and those conspicuously absent-often argue bitterly about what their faith, Marxism, means. More interesting is the question of what Marxism does. How strong is its influence today? What accounts for its ability to renew its appeal? Who needs...
...rebellious youth in the advanced countries shows little sign of swallowing Marxism whole, but the Marxist vision does have its strong appeal to the alienated young. An Italian observer, the critic Nicola Chiaramonte, believes that Marxist influence has grown among Italian youth, even though the Communist Party has been losing young members. "Marx isn't very highly regarded as a thinker," Chiaramonte says, "but as a father image he is very much present. The older generation of Marxists remains influenced by Marxist thought, the last philosophy with a consistent system. But youth is moved by Marx's call...
...tour of twelve cities in five days. His determination remained in spite of editorials in the prestigious Le Monde and Le Figaro urging him to withdraw and of desertions among his key backers. Poher himself indulged in few illusions about the outcome, hinting that his only goal was a strong second-place showing. "I'm an old engineer," he said, "and I know my mathematics...