Word: faction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them to the FBI, the capitalist press and other students of the party line. Orders for its demise came from the party's national executive committee, apparently because 1) it has become a costly luxury to sustain, and 2) Editor John Gates belongs to the "right-wing" party faction that now balks at blind obedience to Moscow...
This is a good season, thanks largely to the leader of the "Red" faction of the Femina jury (named for its sanguine literary tastes and bloody infighting), a novelist, playwright and onetime actress known only as Simone (real name: Pauline Benda). "Several years ago," according to an acquaintance, "she stationed her age at a permanent 75." She reads a novel a day, still manages to take a personal interest in handsome young writers. Madame Simone is haughtily and heartily despised by the "Blue" faction (named for the hue of its blood), led by a scientist, mathematician and relative youngster...
...same midnight-sunny Scandinavian sort. Based on a play of the same title by Kaj Munk, the Danish pastor and playwright who was murdered, probably on Gestapo orders, in 1944, the picture does not tell a story so much as it poses an allegory. A village divided by religious faction into "life-affirming" and "death-seeking" sects is intended to signify what is rotten in the state of Denmark's soul, and in the world's as well. Because of this tragic split, the true faith-symbolized by a pathetic lunatic who imagines that he is the Christ...
Hestnes is the candidates of the Smith faction of the HYRC. Although a senior, he plans, if elected, to direct the club as a first year student at the Law School...
Peterson supported Thomas Stalker '58, the candidate of the Hodel-Perelman-Thompson faction in last March's bitterly contested presidential election. This election prompted charges of vote-buying from both sides and finally wound up before the Student Council and the Administration. The Council recommended suspension of the HRYC charter and attempted to seize the books of the club...