Word: subverter
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...efforts to increase the leading role of the Communist Party." Most important of all, the agreement provides for reinforcing the party and government with "true Marxist-Leninists" -a qualification that, in effect, lets Moscow pass on the orthodoxy of all important appointees in Czechoslovakia. Having failed to subvert the leadership's intense loyalty to Dubček, the Kremlin has seemingly decided to undermine it by attrition...
...wider revolution to overthrow the present political system. A very few revolutionists may have been in dead earnest. More, we suspect, were half in dreamland, feverishly discussing romantic tactics but hardly contemplating realistic execution. Part of the responsibility for the disturbances rests upon the revolutionaries consciously seeking to subvert and destroy the University but their total number was small--much less than the full SDS membership--and their activities were only the catalyst that precipitated a deeper movement. (By the same token our comments concerning the above group should not be applied to the much larger number who seek fundamental...
...hearts and votes of the 1945 Pulitzer Prize Committee with V-Letter and Other Poems, a collection of tough-but-oh-so-gentle verse that balanced war disillusionment with hope for a humane future. The conviction behind Shapiro's courage has long been that organized cultural activities subvert "the fine arts"; he sees the latest threat in a corrupting coalition of irresponsible youth and commercial clowns. In To Abolish Children, the title essay in his assortment of literary trade pieces wrapped around "a fragment of a novel in progress," Shapiro quakes about "these freewheeling organisms equipped with electric guitars...
This resurrection in America is to come about under the irresistable force of the example of the new breed whose revolutionary value system is judged so inherently attractive (it is) that it will subvert traditional morality...
...academic bag" last December. "I suddenly realized," he explains, "that I had not made a single friend in four years." He broke through by taking "sensitivity training" courses at Berkeley's Newman :iub Center and California's Esalen Institute. The way to change society, he now feels, is "to subvert it from the inside with the power of love and caring." He thus considers the hippies ineffective for dropping out, the activists wrong for "alienating the older generation from the younger." The campus revolutionaries "are so lost in their own idealism that they forget that those with other ideals...