Word: fanaticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside Cuba, more trouble piled up for Batista. In Miami his exiled foes last week formed a united front, at a meeting that joined Castro's fanatic student worshipers to Old-pro politicOS such as ex-President Carlos Prio Socarras in a "Cuban Liberation Council." The council's...
Unlike Western ballet, where the body is revealed, these Indian dancers never put the body on display. Theirs is an art of angles rather than curves. To shape the angles, Indian performers exercise muscles not usually used by Western dancers. Hands are incessantly occupied with mudras, the eloquent and elegant...
There were the raucous curses of a fat Kentucky harridan and the horrid spit of a North Carolina fanatic. But there was the fine, quiet dignity of a pretty, besieged Negro girl in Charlotte, and the warm and courageous heart of a gentle, white-haired woman in Little Rock. Where...
To Uphold, Not Upset. No sooner had the three school boards acted than the pressures began building toward a blowoff. Fiery crosses burned at night near Charlotte. A hooded Klansman promised to "muster 50,000 men by the time schools begin to open." Fanatic John Kasper of New Jersey roared...
The madness in all this mad comedy was that Gogol himself thought he was defending the system he undermined. One critic got the point that Gogol had been trying to make. "Preacher of the lash," he called the muddled genius. After his first success. Gogol left Russia in a huff...