Word: wing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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More recently, his refusal to recognize the Oder-Neisse line as Poland's definitive Western border reconfirms that he prefers to cater to a small domestic right-wing audience rather than pursue reconciliation with those who suffered most during the Nazi rule...
Since assuming the presidency of the Harvard Republican Club (HRC) last December, Anderson has managed to antagonize administrators, club members and liberals alike by moving the HRC to a vocal, right-wing ideological stance that has found few adherents on campus...
Words and ideas formerly on the extremes have engulfed the cultural mainstream. But have they polluted it? Many people think so. The moral right wing surely does, and it has friends in powerful places. Senator Jesse Helms fights to force artists to forswear any unwholesome intentions before receiving Government support. Alfred Sikes, the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, leans on radio disk jockeys to clean up their acts. No less than the FBI sends a warning letter to a rap group. Susan Baker (wife of the Secretary of State) and Tipper Gore (wife of the Tennessee Senator), founders...
...form a government. Last week, after Labor leader Shimon Peres' attempt to forge a peace coalition collapsed, Shamir was given three weeks to put together a government. In contrast to the unwieldy Likud-Labor coalitions that have ruled Israel since 1984, Shamir wants to install a narrowly based right-wing regime that his party controls...
...attention is paid. For those who recoil from the ultra-orthodoxy that has captured so much of their country's politics, Hartman is perhaps Israel's paramount religious philosopher. For these Jews, Hartman is a rebbe, a particularly wise teacher. The measure of his impact is that right-wing scholars are truly frightened by his erudition. Most refuse even to discuss him. One who does, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, nevertheless only murmurs cryptically, "Millenniums can pass before a true sage is revealed...