Word: actioneers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...punish Milazzo, and to regain dominance of Catholic Sicily, the Christian Democrats appealed to the Vatican. Armed with an ad hoc papal decree forbidding Catholics to vote for any candidate allied with the Communists, Sicily's imperious Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini sent Catholic Action groups from house to house warning voters against Milazzo, even attempted in vain to prevent Milazzo from joining Palermo's Corpus Christi procession fortnight ago. In the U.S., the Hearst press urged its Italian-American readers to shower Sicily with anti-Milazzo letters and telegrams; advising the use of night-rate cables, New York...
Hoping to deny the Kerala government the money it needs to function, Congress pickets stood in front of tax collectors' offices in nine cities, to prevent anyone from entering or leaving. First in action was the 45-year-old cleaning woman of Trivandrum's district tax office, who threw herself in the dust before the entrance and lay there for 45 minutes before policewomen arrived to lead her away. Then 14 men pickets, sprawled in front of the building, were also dragged away by police. By the end of the first day of mass defiance, 215 demonstrators...
...Landry, John Florea, Mark Kauffman, George Strock, Hank Walker, John Dominis, Peter Stackpole, Harold Trudeau, John Wilkes). West Coast newspapers are full of Bach alumni; others are aiming the nation's TV and newsreel cameras. In World War II, 146 were combat cameramen, and four died in action. What Harvard's George Lyman Kittredge was to Shakespeare, Fremont High's spry, spectacled Clarence Bach is to news photography...
...noon the visitors began tapping at the window of the Galerie Claude Bernard on Paris' Rue des Beaux-Arts, and all afternoon the crowd swelled. By the time of the official opening at 9 p.m., traffic was at a standstill, and police reinforcements had been called into action. By such signs, Parisians knew they were witnessing France's newest art-world success, Nuts-and-Bolts Sculptor Césarsar Baldaccini. "Hail, César!" roared Combat. "The Benvenuto Cellini of scrap metal." trumpeted France-Observateur. Wiping his brow, Gallery Owner Bernard beamed: "Even Picasso doesn't pull...
That cooled the crisis, but not Morris, who seized the opportunity to bring his painting to the attention of a wider audience. "I'm sick of what passes for art," he explains. "I'm for beat, beat like a drum. I'm for action. There isn't anybody moving in painting. Like they're all shot. I'm starting a new school-action expressionism. The action signifies the beat behind...