Word: toryism
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...from calculation. Just as Bill Clinton reinvented himself as a New Democrat to capture the White House in 1992, and then as a reborn centrist to win a second term last year, Blair has retooled Labour so that it sometimes seems like nothing but a more caring version of Toryism. Gone are the old socialist slogans. Gone is the pledge to redistribute income and nationalize industries. Blair calls his party "new Labour." His opponent, Conservative Prime Minister John Major, describes it as "really pretty much...
...swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety." Shaw's dramas brim with advocates of free thought and liberal policy, but his correspondence reveals him as a fool of the new totalitarians. Adolf Hitler is a "wonderful preacher of everything that is right and best in Toryism"; Joseph Stalin is the "greatest living statesman...
...warm, compassionate leader. In one crowd-pleasing piece of oratory last week, he evoked the meter of Welsh Poet Dylan Thomas when he declared there were just four more days left of "hope-destroying, unemploying, care-cutting, factory-shutting, nation-splitting, poor-hitting, truth-mangling, freedom-strangling Toryism...
...general, his colleagues say, Carrington epitomizes the old school of patrician, moderate Toryism. His working relationship with Thatcher, a leader of a new Tory breed, as intent on fiscal austerity and hard-line anti-Soviet rhetoric as it is distrustful of the aristocracy, therefore came as a surprise to many. Carrington, in the words of Lowell House Government Tutor and Harkness Fellow Andrew Sullivan, "is the archetypal Tory `wet,'" the standard characterization for those in opposition to Thatcher's tight-fisted domestic policy...
First, Mulroney must have difficulty in managing his party and causes. The ball is in his court. In 1983 he led right-wing forces oposed to Red Toryism to undermine Joe Clark and claim the leadership. Outflanking Clark on the right one year, he reversed his field and outflanked the Liberal Party on the left...