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...constant headache to the Canadian government. The Freedomites are part of a Russian nonconformist movement called the Doukhobors (literally "spirit wrestlers"), who came to Canada in 1899 and now number some 14,000 strong. Believing that man owes his only allegiance to God, the Freedomites are violently defiant of all "worldly" authority, including the Canadian government. To show their disdain for things of the flesh (and reveal a lot of their own at the same time), the Freedomites periodically set fire to their shacks, then stripped to the buff and hurled their clothing into the flames. But then, under...
...strides past another on a barren pedestal. Both figures are skeletal, their contours a last frontier against nothingness. Both, despite their perilous proximity, seem abandoned in a void. But they exist. This is the main and master image in the art of Alberto Giacometti. It is his desperate, yet defiant picture of mankind, a symbol of the mid-20th century crisis of humanism-and the likeness of Giacometti himself...
...clear and present is the danger of miscalculation by either side that public-labor disputes cry out for improved collective-bargaining techniques-probably accompanied by strike injunctions enforced by whopping fines against defiant unions and their leaders. New York's former Mayor Robert F. Wagner took a pioneering step in what most experts consider the right direction when he ordered city agencies to "promote insofar as possible the practices and procedures of collective bargaining prevailing in private labor relations." New York's United Federation of Teachers, for example, now boasts a potent no-strike contract with the board...
...sure they obeyed, the government posted 700 policemen to keep the bishops out of the cathedral in Athens' Metropolis Square, where they had been carrying on their politicking, and a crowd turned out to jeer them. "Christ-traders! You want gold, not God!" someone shouted. The 36 most defiant bishops wheeled off to the Holy Synod Building a block away and went on with their balloting...
...line: "Children don't have prejudices. They are like fruit on the tree, ready to be plucked when ripe." On the walls were student sketches of Castro with peace doves, Castro standing atop the globe with a radiant smile, Castro at the Bay of Pigs invasion, a defiant David facing a hideous U.S. Goliath. A reporter asked if art was giving way to politics. "No," said the instructor. "We give the children complete freedom in what they do. I just give them a theme. Last week we talked about Algeria and the Congo. Today, I'll tell them...