Citations:boy scout

English citations of boy scout

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• 1970 French Politicians and Elections 1951-1969, Philip M. Williams, CUP Archive, p42

  [...] the democratic camaraderie of the Socialists, and the 'boy scout' air of a group of youthful idealists like the Jeune République [...]

• 1982 The economist, Volume 284, Economist Newspaper Ltd., p24

  An independently rich 52-year-old, he is very much a political boy scout, and has flailed the state Republican party as a cloistered "country club".

• 1982 Anthony Sampson, The changing anatomy of Britain, Random House, p87

  When he went into parliament at the age of twenty-five he appeared almost a caricature of the boy scout politician, with his hearty style and square jaw, and he was much influenced by his father [...]

• 1987 Wall Street Journal, October 2

  But the bottom line is that Simon is running for president as the boy scout who adheres to traditional liberal policies and solutions.

• 2003 Roger F. S. Kaplan, Conservative socialism: the decline of radicalism and triumph of the Left in France, Transaction Publishers, p91

  Rocard, whose two marriages had failed during his long years as the left's boy scout, was reported to be living with a psychoanalyst.