Word: extremist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dandi march, in which he led thousands of Indians in a 200-mile trek to the sea to protest the salt tax; his repeated imprisonments; his fasts, which were effective moral protests that fired India's millions and the world; his death at the hands of a Hindu extremist, which put an ironically violent end to a life dedicated to nonviolence...
Italians always make more of a fuss over U.S. dignitaries than any other, but Mrs. Luce's was "the biggest reception any American ambassador ever got," cabled the New York Daily News. The Italian national radio network broadcast her ar rival speech; all but the extremist press carried her picture on Page One, and the weekly Epoca published five pages and 27 pictures...
...latest upcropping of a 20-year-old unofficial ban that began when the Nazis began persecuting the Jews. Israel's extremist press threatened trouble every time the question of German music arose. Violinist Heifetz was not deterred, played the sonata anyhow, and won an ovation. Said he: "I don't recognize any bans, official or unofficial, on the playing of music." The following night, in Tel Aviv, he played Strauss again. Perhaps for the first time in his career, Heifetz drew stony silence instead of applause...
...Radcliffe Graduate Student Council in the preparation of the discussion "Should Universities Be Investigated?" did irreparable harm to the cause of Harvard and other universities in the same position. By inviting Dirk Struik, the Council not only laid its flanks bare for outside attack, but also presented an intemperate extremist and a disappointing defender of academic freedom...
Some Catholics are diffident about this doctrine, but others push it to extremes. The leading U.S. extremist is a grey-haired, ex-Jesuit priest in Boston, Father Leonard Feeney; he insists that no one who is not a Catholic can get to heaven. When he refused to stop expounding this belief, he was suspended in 1949 from his functions as a priest by Boston's Archbishop Richard J. Gushing, and expelled from the Jesuit order. Since then, he and a small group of followers, known as the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, have continued to preach their...