Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wolfe is also convinced, as every right-wing commentator on the Left has been since about 1920, that some recent event has uttcrly discredited socialism. So he picks out the Solzhenitsyn and related cases as evidence that socialism itself, and not Stalinism, created the world's "bone heap... grisly beyond belief." He catalogues the Western literary community's boycott of Solzhenitsyn and seems to be aghast at the idea that lifelong leftists would not collapse like toy boats at the salvos of Solzhenitsyn, a Russian Orthodox dogmatic and rightist. What mindlessness. I guess Wolfe called the piece "The Intelligent...
...will go across the nation. In St. Louis, the celebration under, around and through the city's Gateway Arch will last four hours and include an air show with a wing walker and a five-man free-fall parachute jump. At Chicago Stadium, the Immigration and Naturalization Service will swear in 1,776 new citizens. In the Miami Beach Convention Hall, 7,000 new citizens will be naturalized...
...England, firmly supports independence. It is led by the "New Light" wing, which backed the revival enthusiasms of the "Great Awakening" and has long promoted egalitarian ideas. PRESBYTERIANS (495). These Calvinists, who began organizing early in the century and are centered in the Middle Colonies, mostly favor independence, though many Scots in the south remain loyal to the King. BAPTISTS (457). This group was minuscule till the Great Awakening, but that and later revivals have spread the Baptists' popularity. Though much harassed by hostile mobs and even by local authorities, they favor an independent America...
Specifically, Manley blames the violence on his right-wing political enemies who are trying to impede Jamaica's path to socialism. If, in fact, they do get help from American sources, he claims, it is partly because of his friendship with Castro (who may visit Kingston in August) and partly because Jamaica backed the pro-Soviet regime of Agostinho Neto in Angola. The U.S., argues Manley, "has been resentful of any country in the Western Hemisphere that came out in support of Neto and the Cubans against the South Africans. They have been very bitter about...
Uneasy over the country's growing reputation as an Alpine penny pincher, the government recently won parliamentary support for a modest $80 million contribution to the World Bank to help the world's neediest nations. But an odd coalition of extreme left-and right-wing politicians launched a popular initiative against the proposal.When it came to a referendum last week, the Swiss resoundingly rejected the aid scheme, 713,855 to 550,557. The Tribune de Genève fretted that the outcome betrayed an "egoistic, isolationist trait in the Swiss character," but that hardly came as a surprise...