Word: winger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bullying and later blinded magnate, its endless rain of symbolic and allegorical smallshot, its scarred and almost sceneryless universe, Waiting for Godot can be most variously interpreted-somewhat after the fashion of the blind men and the elephant. Under Godot's metaphysical counterpane, believing Christian, doubting pessimist, left-winger and existentialist can all find reasons to nestle for warmth. But whether Godot stands for God or simply for man's unconquerable hope, whether Waiting for Godot is a philosophic depth bomb or a theatrical dud, clearly the play has not a casual but a thematic plotlessness...
...left-winger himself, he likes to say that the Communists are not Left but East...
...four candidates in the race for the Presidency, two were moralizers and two materialists, General Juarez Távora and Right-Winger Plinio Salgado, both considered deeply religious, vowed to clean up corruption. Juscelino Kubitschek and rich, Falstaffan Adhemar de Barros, both M.D.s, former state governors and practical politicians, vowed to raise living standards. Barros ran well ahead of Kubitschek in the big cities; Kubitschek piled up his plurality in the inland towns and farm villages, where the P.S.D. machine operated most efficiently, and where most of the voters had laid eyes on no other presidential candidate. The final count...
...middle-roader, a founding member of the moderately conservative Social Democratic Party, but he accepted a leftish Labor Party leader as his vice-presidential running mate. On top of that, he failed to reject the Communist Party's bandwagon-climbing endorsement. Inevitably, opponents labeled him a left-winger as well. Said Kubitschek at a Washington press conference: "I am not in debt in any way to the Communists...
...star and former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Gaitskell. -The Rivals. Oxford-bred Hugh Gaitskell, sharp-witted and sharp-tongued, was once considered too donnish for the workingman, but now at 49, he has become the right-wing trade unionists' favorite candidate against the rambunctious but embittered left-winger Nye Bevan...