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...Better Connection. Under the leadership of the miners' John L. Lewis and the garment workers' Sidney Hillman and David Dubinsky, the C.I.O. was formed in 1935 with two slogans: 1) "organizing the unorganized" and 2) doing it by setting up unions of industrial (as opposed to craft) scope. The C.I.O. took with it a high proportion of the brains and drive of the A.F.L. and about one-third of the membership. The C.I.O.'s great achievements: organization of the automobile workers and the steelworkers. Its great failure: the heavy infiltration of Communists into some of its unions...
Dubinsky and his International Ladies' Garment Workers went back to the A.F.L. in 1940, Lewis went back (temporarily) in 1946, Hillman died the same year. Lewis' able lieutenant, Philip Murray, held the C.I.O. together by the cohesive pull of his own shining integrity. It took him years to clean out the Communists, an effort that sapped much of the C.I.O.'s energy. When Murray and his bitter rival William Green (both began as coal miners) died within two weeks of each other, it became possible for new men to make a new and serious try at labor...
...courtesans and homosexuals knew the joys of courtship. In the later Roman Empire, courting seems to have been simply the "pursuit of the other man's wife, conducted as a sport." Though St. Jerome complains that the 4th-century minx had some shockers up her sleeve ("Her upper garment sometimes falls ... to show her naked shoulders, and as if she would not be seen, she covers that in all haste which voluntarily she showed"), he has no light to shed on what was up the gentleman's. Courting, "in the modern sense," did not exist until the 12th...
...blind him." Wrote Stendhal: "The profile of an angel, the gentlest of manners . . . the most amiable monster that I have ever seen . . . There was much petty vanity, a continual and puerile fear of appearing ridiculous . . . But his genius once awakened, his faults were shaken off as a garment that would have incommoded the flight of his imagination...
Progressively loud cheers greeted the exit of each garment from the center of the group, and finally the Crimson had a full team after...