Word: thompson
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Before a group of more that 50 at a forum sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Democratic Club, David S. Landes, Goelet Professor of French History, and Scott Thompson, professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts, joined Eilts in criticizing the handling of the controversial sale of the high-technology radar planes by American policy makers...
...Thompson and Eilts, however, asserted that the sale would not endanger the fragile Middle East peace and that defeat of the package--which can be vetoed by majority vote in the Senate and House--would tarnish the image of Reagan and the United States. Thompson added the rejection would force the Saudis to buy British radar planes...
Diverse as their backgrounds are, Foot's idols also share a social conscience. Bonar Thompson, an anarchist Hyde Park orator whom Foot befriended, believed so strongly in his own independence and in the immorality of the British political system "that he had never helped to sustain that system with so much as a single movement of his hand or finger." Another radical admired by Foot is Thomas Paine, whose reformist writings, shunned for many years in America, grew so popular in Europe that "he gained an international notoriety such as only pop stars have today." And with his literary heroes...
Though several of his heroes, like Thompson, the Hyde Park orator, lived in poverty, Foot avoids the common error of identifying poverty as a virtue. Those leaders who surmounted poverty, or better yet, reached great political or cultural heights while enveloped in it, are to be admired; but to Foot, those cases of success are sources of inspiration, not complacency. He avoids that unattractive political ailment, knee-jerk liberalism, by meshing compassion and a sense of the practical better than most. Michael Foot will never be Prime Minister of Britain. His party remains so divided that electoral victory will...
...elected in those days, and certainly more than a position paper. Forty or fifty supporters of a city council candidate would get together, attach campaign signs and railroad flares to their cars, and drive slowly through the city. The candidate would gather everyone from the neighborhood at Thompson's Grove for a picnic, a ball game, and a pledge of undying loyalty through election day. And there were thousands of slate cards for kids to hand voters as they entered the polls, palm-sized pieces of cardboard with the proper names on them just in case anyone had forgotten...