Word: firebrands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some seemed to have gentled with age. Dolores Ibarruri, 68, the firebrand who was known as La Pasionaria in the Spanish Civil War, now looks like someone's kind old grandmother. Others have made the change, at least outwardly, from Red Amazons to reasonably fashionable women: slim, tousle-haired Jeannette Vermeersch, wife of France's Red Boss Maurice Thorez, could have stepped out of the Galeries Lafayette, if not Dior. Once-dowdy Lotte Ulbricht, married to East Germany's lackluster President, could pass as a well-to-do provincial Hausfrau, and India's Aruna Asaf...
Back home, the middle-aging lawyer joined the United Malay Nationalist Organization, slowly began building up a political following in his native Kedah. In other Malay states, the Tunku's firebrand followers from the London days began pushing him for the party leadership; finally, in 1951, Abdul Rahman took over as boss of the U.M.N.O. "Nobody had ever heard of him," an official recalls. "I remember people asking 'Who the hell...
...accused the Bellas Artes of selecting for its annual shows nothing but "copies of copies of copies of the so-called Mexican school." In 1956, while on a visit to Venezuela, he was asked why he so cruelly kept attacking the aging (and currently jailed) Communist firebrand David Siqueiros, and he bluntly replied: "For the same reason that the students of Caracas attacked Dictator Pérez Jiménez." Siqueiros, he said, was a "comic dictator with the intolerant habits of a totalitarian politico." He insisted that while Rivera had turned out a few masterworks in his time...
Having quit the Labor Cabinet in 1951, along with Firebrand Aneurin Bevan, Wilson has inherited much of Bevan's leftwing support. But in the Cabinet his main administrative achievement was the dismantling of a vast array of controls on Britain's postwar economy. He has always been more pragmatic than doctrinaire-or opportunistic, his enemies say. In a Commons speech last week he declared, "What I am saying may or may not be ideological, but it will get the export orders." With the left safely on his side, Wilson is shrewd enough to know that, as leader...
...many hot baths myself. Anyway, what's underneath isn't seen by anybody." In 1950, he replaced ailing Sir Stafford Cripps as Chancellor of the Exchequer and immediately began slashing welfare expenses to pay for Britain's defense commitments. It was a decision which enraged Labor Firebrand Aneurin Bevan, then Minister of Health, and which began a titanic battle for power within the party...