Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revolt of the Chinese Communists in Shanghai, when they tried to wrest the city from foreign control, only to die when Chiang Kai-shek turned on them and bloodily suppressed their strike. Its intellectual revolutionists spoke of revolution as lyrically as a mystical communion, a tragic but glorious experience which transfigured men. It made his generation aware of a new kind of contemporary hero, the "engaged man," at grips with the vital issues of history. It won the Prix Goncourt, and Gide described it as "panting with an anguish almost unbearable." Cried François Mauriac: "Here is a youth...
...congratulate Memphis' Mayor Frank Tobey for having returned the original name to glorious Beale Street...
With conservatism in such permanent authority, politics tends to consist largely of ideology and favormongering. "Only the slightest ideological nuances divide the harmless Radicals . . . from the Communists" when their parliamentary stentors shout the glorious insurrectionary principles of the Revolution, says Luethy. France, in short, has attained "the seventh day of creation" and wants only to keep what it has. Stability, says Luethy, is the Frenchman's great desire-stability that preserves all the innumerable positions of petty local privilege first won as a rule from the all-compassing state, stability that permits the anarchic individualism by which "everyone...
...Christianity. To the Shiite Moslems of Iran, Bahaism is a heretical splinter group. The controversy centers around their belief in the second coming of the Imam, a descendent of Mohammed's son-in-law AH, who will inaugurate a new and glorious era in history after a period of wars, eclipses and catastrophes. But the Bahais believe that the Imam already has come-heralded by one Mirza Ali Mohammed, who proclaimed himself Bab (Gate) and stirred up enough theological ruction to get himself executed by the government in 1850. He was followed by Mirza Hussein Ali, a wealthy cabinet...
...driving the terrorists clean out of town. The Nationalists destroyed the headquarters of the Binh Xuyen's General Le Van Vien, the place where he kept his pet crocodiles. Only three Binh Xuyen posts remained; they were inside the cordoned-off French quarter. "Your courage has written a glorious page," Diem proclaimed to the flushed young troops...