Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, only half of the actors slip comfortably into the sharp-edged comedy-of-manners mode, while the others flounder midway between some sort of modern naturalistic something-or-other and a very stilted ultra-Victorian melodramatic bluster...
Gingrich's victory was a rebuke to the House's Old Guard Republicans, a breed typified by the congenial minority leader, Bob Michel of Illinois. The chunky, blow-dried Gingrich represents the party's Young Turks, ultra- conservative Republicans, many of them elected in the '80s, who are fed up with their elders' deference to the majority. The Old Guard, Gingrich said, "tends to say, 'Oh, gee, ((the Democrats)) are in charge. How can we be nice enough to them that they'll let us pretend we're part of the game?' " In contrast, he declared, "I represent the wing...
Publicly, the U.S. reacted cautiously to ARENA's victory. The State Department reminded Cristiani that "our relationship with the new government will depend on its adherence to democracy and respect for human rights." Privately, officials fear El Salvador will once again find itself polarized between ultra-right and far left, with no centrist, reformist government to protect the disenfranchised masses against the violence of both...
...strongest consensus in the poll was opposition by 86% to a change in Israeli law "so as to recognize only those conversions performed by Orthodox rabbis." When last fall's election gave neither Likud nor Labor a clear majority, each considered forming a coalition with ultra-Orthodox religious parties. The price would have been high: giving the fanatic religious groups exclusive power over the religious conversion of immigrants to Israel. By implication, the legitimacy of Conservative and Reform Jews would have been undermined. Outraged protests from abroad helped torpedo that idea and forced creation of another inaptly named "unity" government...
...Germany. But last week, to the shock of the country's political establishment, that dictum was punctured in both directions. In two major cities, West Berlin and Frankfurt, left-wing alliances of Social Democrats and environmental-activist Greens became majority factions. Both cities have also seen a resurgence of ultra-right parties: anti-immigrant Republicans in West Berlin and National Democrats in Frankfurt. The National Democrats, once a refuge of unreconstructed Nazis, gained 6.6% of the vote and representation in the legislative council of the country's financial capital...