Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...occasionally lost control of individual states. Kerala in the south had plumped for a Communist government in 1957 and had gone in for a socialist government earlier. In 1957, again, it had to share power in Orissa with the right-wing party Ganatrantra Parishad or Democratic Council. But in none of these could it be kept out of power for long. In Kerala, the central government had ousted the Communists from power and imposed direct rule by the President of India following massive popular unheaval against the Communists in 1959. In the mid-term elections that had followed...
...Architect Philip Johnson was right: a wing added to the Boston Public Library [Feb. 24], or a building that would dominate it, would have been out of the question; a duplicate would have been more absurd than either...
...British Prime Minister was not speaking to Ho Chi Minh, Charles de Gaulle or Ted Heath but to members of his own party. They were 60 or so dissident, left-wing Labor M.P.s who for months have been snapping at Wilson's policies. The rebels have outspokenly opposed his stands on Viet Nam (too hard), Rhodesia (too soft), the wage freeze (too tough on the working class), defense (too expensive), and possible entry into the Common Market (too great a surrender of sovereignty). If the rebels do not swing back in line, warned Wilson, he might just call...
...same, when word of the intended bequest leaked to London's Sunday Telegraph last week, the Tate was embarrassed. Moore wants to be certain that his works can be publicly displayed, but the gallery still needs to raise $2,100,000 for a new wing. Nonetheless, Moore plans to announce an itemized gift list next year on his 70th birthday. "If the gallery puts up a special wing with a complete unity of its own, I shall be pleased," he said, adding: "But I am not laying down any conditions...
...further confusion in the review is reflected in Miss McVeigh's sloppy use of the terminology "New" and "Old" Left--terms, invented by one wing of the movement to paint itself in a good light and its opponents in a bad light. There are serious differences in approach between SDS and the democratic Left (the term we us to describe ourselves), but they are not ones between old and new. Take the question of Communism, for example. In the thirties, on the Left there were Communists, anti-Communists, and a third group of anti-anti-Communists who vaguely identified with...