Word: fermenter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...destalinization drive would touch off a wave of unrest. Even though Stalin had bullied and betrayed the Chinese Communists (as well as helped them, at a price, during the Korean war), Mao believed in Stalin's principle of centralized rule, preferred a stable Red empire to one in ferment...
...frets and fears. He is effeminate in manner, drinks considerably, smokes cigarettes in chains, and he often loses his audience with overblown arguments. Nevertheless, in the U.S. today there is not another writer?white or black?who expresses with such poignancy and abrasiveness the dark realities of the racial ferment in North and South...
...Born Yesterday. The Republican surge in the South is a recognized fact of U.S. political life. Less widely understood is the ferment within the Southern Democratic Party. Last March, Charles D. Roche, 35, No. 2 man on the Democratic National Committee, canvassed the South, reported that Negro, labor, educational and religious leaders are ready for revolt against the party's entrenched, old-style officeholders. From Roche's trip came rumors that the Administration meant to "purge" hostile Democratic Southern Congressmen...
Poor Percy is the emotional fulcrum of the play, and probably says more to an English than to an American playgoer. Britain's Dyer is not an angry playwright, but he shares the current British theatrical fervor for discovering the lower classes. This social ferment is a quarter of a century out of phase with the U.S. experience of the Depression that animated the old Group Theater's concept of the hero as ultra common man. The sad truth is that the Percys of the world are the small beer of the drama, and in two hours they...
...rite Ukrainians into the Russian Orthodox Church, and in 1946 was imprisoned, charged with "political crimes during the German occupation." Confined to a tiny cell with four Catholic priests, he said Mass in secret, using dried crusts of bread for hosts and wine made by letting grapes and raisins ferment in a glass. In 1953 his hard-labor sentence was reduced to house arrest in Lvov, but two years later, Slipyi was shipped to a Siberian old people's home, where he was put to work as a servant...