Word: trotskyish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Portrait of the Intellectual as a Yale Man examines the callow liberalism and the not-so-united-frontage of the '30s in the presumably hard, gemlike flame of the heroine's radicalism (Trotskyish) and personal integrity (self-righteous). There are some eloquent paragraphs on The Old Man, as Trotsky's disciples used to call him; some sore and salutary ones on the queasy performance of the liberal weeklies during the Moscow Trials; some sour clinical notes on the habits of college-bred intellectuals...
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