Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Fall Partisan Review has arrived, and with it Dwight MacDonald's second article on Masscult and Midcult. This is a theme dear to Mr. MacDonald's heart (as those who heard him speak in Harvard Hall last year will remember); it has the built-in advantage of immediately alienating a certain number of ineffectuals and of subtly flattering the educated majority; thus it is considered controversial. It also permits Mr. MacDonald to indulge in one of his greatest pleasures: insulting Archibald MacLeish...
First, the Peace Corps concept is essentially non-partisan. Rep. Frank Bow (R., Ohio) considered introducing similar legislation two years ago. Both Mason Sears and Henry A. Wallace have endorsed the suggestion for a non-military national service. The Congressional proposal for a study of a Point Four Youth Corps gained bi-partisan support...
...Francisco Chronicle, which lists itself as independent Republican and backed Eisenhower in both 1952 and 1956, argued that in foreign affairs Vice President Nixon's ability "has been demonstrated beyond partisan doubt." Kennedy, the Chronicle went on, "has filled the domestic sky with shimmering promises which could not conceivably be performed without seriously unbalancing the budget...
...newspaper political columnist is paid to have opinions, and objectivity is neither required nor expected. Particularly in national election years, the pundit is seized with an unconquerable urge to 1) gird his partisan loins, 2) sashay, spear in hand, forth into battle on behalf of his own political beliefs, and 3) relate the whole struggle in uncompromising terms to the state of the nation. Last week, with decision day at hand, the pundits were performing with great zest...
...lovely partisan show, and the people--who had been waiting in a cold, driving rain for nearly three hours--enjoyed it immensely. Properly fired up, as the crowd inside the Coliseum had not been, they marched away through the rain, shouting "Let's back Jack!" A peddler selling Kennedy buttons and hats did good business, and, looking very confident, the candidate went off to tackle Connecticut...