You do not have to be around Mr Fischer long to realise that behind the quirky wit lurks a melancholy, even tortured, personality typical of many leftist intellectuals in post-Hitler Germany.
Describing the ongoing crisis as a global phenomenon, the story goes, is a typical Eurocentrist view coming from leftists who usually pride themselves on their anti-Eurocentrism.
The son of a lawyer and a dentist with distinctly non-leftist views, Milios is typical of a generation who embraced Marxist ideology during the 1967-74 colonels' regime.
Lon Nol was forced to resign, and, in a typical move, the prince named new leftists to the government to balance the conservatives.
Some cynics doubted his convictions, claiming they were merely typical of the fashionable views espoused in the intellectual leftist circles in which he mixed.
With Greece's mercurial finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, arriving in Washington today for the spring meeting of the IMF, the country seems to be edging ever closer to disaster.The inquiry about delaying payments to the IMF was typical of the unpredictable behaviour of Greece's new government, led by the leftist Syriza party.
Adolf Hitler was not a leftist.
His mother was a leftist.
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