Due to Chaplin being investigated for "subversive tendencies" the film was not released in the United States until 20 years later, when it won several Oscars.
Those same subversive tendencies that led Jann Wenner to help found the magazine in 1967 were reawakened under the presidency of George W. Bush.
Doubtless he would have denied these descriptions, but his subversive tendencies are beyond dispute, and he could hardly have been called a conformist.
The equivalent would have been for a prominent American intellectual to be pro-Soviet in the cold war, or today to have kind words for Islamic Jihad.If Socrates had subversive tendencies, he never acted on them overtly.
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For one thing, Cimon's victory at the Battle of the Eurymedon River was primarily a naval victory; for another, it was the Sparta-loving Cimon and his hoplites who were dismissed by the Spartans from Ithome for their subversive tendencies.
But, in part because Blass's work is so devoid of proletarian or subversive tendencies and in part because his guerrilla camouflage was a bespoke tuxedo, it is hard to think of him as a catalyst for social change, much less as a liberator of untouchables, the Gandhi of Seventh Avenue.
Britain's intelligence agency, MI5, constantly snooped on the country's newly elected leader, Cheddi Jagan, for any subversive tendencies.
The new and subversive critical tendencies of the 1960s demanded more of the reader, who was to become an active participant in decoding the text, not a passive recipient.
In addition there was the Whitney's retrospective of Glenn Ligon's serene but barbed art; the New Museum's summation of Lynda Benglis's subversive sculptural tendencies, as well as "Ostalgia," its examination of recent art from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics.
