Word: communings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surest sign of a real political crisis in France, now as in the 1930s or the days of the 1871 Commune, is the emergence of the mobs. Into the Champs Elysées they came one afternoon last week, 5,000 youths, war veterans and rightist sympathizers. After a small group had placed a wreath on the grave of the Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe, they crowded toward the office of the weekly L'Express, which has been attacking French army excesses in Algeria (TIME, April 1). Some shouted, "Mendès to the gallows"; others cried...
...years Opus Dei inched ahead, an unofficial studying and worshiping commune of men who used old houses in Madrid as headquarters. They were in one of these on the city's outskirts when Spain's Civil War broke out, pinning them down in the line of fire between attacking Loyalists and Nationalists defending a barracks. After a two-day battle the Loyalists won; the Opus Deists slipped out of the house (Father Escrivá in worker's coveralls...
...prophet of the Republic," white-haired and bursting with emotion, returned to Paris with the more-than-vague hope that the Republic would reciprocate by making him its head. That was not to be. Through the siege of Paris by the Prussians and the bloody uprising of the Commune ("Both sides are mad"), Hugo wrote and loved on. One of his late conquests: Actress Sarah Bernhardt, then 28 to Hugo's 70. As age advanced, he grudged the speechmaking demanded of him by his grateful country. "To make a speech is more exhausting for me than making love three...
Freethinker Courbet, once praised by Socialist Philosopher Pierre Joseph Proudhon as "the first true socialist painter," plunged into the Paris Commune uprising of 1871, was elected president of the short-lived Federal Commission of Artists. Later, when the conservatives returned to power, they accused Courbet (unjustly) of destroying Napoleon I's bronze column in Place Vendôme. Imprisoned, Courbet later went into exile in Switzerland, after the French government had sent him a bill for restoring the column and confiscated his property. Plagued by money worries and by waning powers, he stepped up his daily wine ration...
...Blake came home with a divided mind about how closely U.S. churchmen should commune with Russian churchmen...