Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lombardo, thus chided, only went farther. In a letter not reported in the U.S. until last week, he replied: "On the day when the unions act on instructions from a political party, union liberty will be ended. ... In Mexico we recognize the patriotic alliance with the industrial bourgeoisie in order to resist imperialism. The class struggle without quarter is an error...
...product of progressive education and the Wagner Act, student strikes in the U.S. were on the rise last week. Some recent strikes and issues: in Rogersville, Tenn., for better teachers; in Lock Haven, Pa., against corporal punishment; in Chicago, because the boys wanted a football team and the girls wanted to wear slacks; in New York City, against Christmas homework; in Sapulpa, Okla., for a longer vacation. Sapulpa fathers formed a united front to break the strike, applied "woodshed tactics...
Audiences who have heard Miss Anderson sing Crucifixion have sometimes been too awed to applaud. They have sensed that they are participants in an act of creation-the moment at which religion informs art, and makes it greater than itself...
Birth of the Soul. The theme of the greatest music is always the birth of the soul. Words can describe, painting can suggest, but music alone enables the listener to participate, beyond conscious thought, in this act. Beethoven's Violin Concerto is a work secular beyond question. But when, in the first movement, the simple theme subtly changes, the mind is lifted and rent-not because the strings have zipped to another key, but by a tone of divinity conveyed through the composer's growing deafness by an inspiration inexplicable to the mind. The spirituals are perhaps...
...about labor unions? In this momentous argument Alfred P. Sloan Jr., board chairman of General Motors Corp., last week entered G.M.'s brief. Before the Boston Chamber of Commerce he laid down the general rule that labor's just rights must not be sacrificed, but the Wagner Act, which has "as a matter of fact, operated to deprive both workers and others of their rights," must either "fall" or be drastically amended. To his audience and to Congress Sloan suggested...