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Anticommunism
ANTICOMMUNISM ANTICOMMUNISM was a stance rather than a movement. It did not revolve around a principal anticommunist organization or a core ideology. Anticommunists were defined by what they were against rather than what they were for. Rather than a single anticommunism, there were numerous... Read more |
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Henry Robinson Luce
Henry Robinson Luce 1898-1967, American publisher, b. Tengchow (now Penglai), China, the son of a Presbyterian missionary. After studying at Yale Univ. and Oxford, he worked (1921-22) as a reporter on the Chicago Daily News and the Baltimore News. In 1923, with Briton Hadden, he founded Time, ... Read more |
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Marcello Caetano
Marcello Caetano , 1906-80, Portuguese lawyer and statesman. He received a doctorate in law (1931) from the Univ. of Lisbon, where he taught after 1932, serving as professor (1940-68) and as rector (1959-62). A close associate of António de Oliveira Salazar , he was instrumental in planning... Read more |
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J Edgar Hoover
J. Edgar Hoover (John Edgar Hoover), 1895-1972, American administrator, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), b. Washington, D.C. Shortly after he was admitted to the bar, he entered (1917) the Dept. of Justice and served (1919-21) as special assistant to Attorney General A.... Read more |
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Three liberations
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Alexander Dubcek
Alexander Dubček , 1921-92, Czechoslovakian political leader. A member of the Slovakian national minority, he was active in the Communist underground in World War II and rose in the party hierarchy after the war, becoming head of the Slovakian Communist party and a member of the presidium of... Read more |
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seven liberal arts
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Liberal Party (Australia)
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Emil L. Fackenheim
Emil Ludwig Fackenheim Liberal Jewish theologian Emil Fackenheim (born 1916) explored new horizons relating the Holocaust to Jewish theology and examining the relationships among modern philosophical issues. Emil Ludwig Fackenheim represents the odyssey of contemporary liberal Jewish... Read more |
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John Goodricke
Goodricke, John (b. Groningen, Netherlands, 17 September 1764; d. York, England, 20 April 1786) astronomy. Goodricke, the British astronomical prodigy of the late eighteenth century whose discoveries laid the foundations of an important branch of stellar astronomy, died at not quite twenty-two... Read more |
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The end of the journey. (author and journalist Diana Trilling has died at age...
...New York intellectual life When she was in her late...what they called "a life of significant contention...only the demise of that life but the loss of standards...recruit her) to an early, liberal anticommunism, she rejected simplistic... |
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The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling.
...of exposing his life 'without dignity...details of their life together. Even...ruination of his life; the prevalent...notable paroxysms of anticommunism, who converted...revolutionary faith," brief though their novitiate...anti-Stalinist ... |
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If I had a hammer ... the death of the old left and the birth of the new left.
...mark on American political life. Shachtman recruited Irving...collectivism' to the Cold War anticommunism of the AFL-CIO. Today...his book, Isserman offers a brief account of how the New Left...youth culture, and of maverick liberals and iconoclastic ... |
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Monk's Tale: The Pilgrimage Begins, 1941-1975
...celebrities; fervent anticommunism; and active membership...preferred "quick masses, brief homilies . . . and little...active Republican, Mom a liberal Democrat. At St. Anthony...sisters launched Monk's life of learning; one influential...call to the ... |
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Emerson, Thomas. (obituary)
...quintessential anticommunist liberal. The sponsor was an-umbrella...play the demagogic politics of anticommunism, he stood squarely for what...fought all his professional life. (Indeed, the student was...activities. He wrote the amicus brief in Sweatt v. ... |
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The physics of spin: sputnik politics and American physicists in the 1950s.
...has been a part of scholarly life since at least the age of Plato...diplomacy, low-brow domestic anticommunism, and their occasional intertwining...enlisted terms and concepts from a liberal political tradition to interpret...during the 1950s. In this brief ... |
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