Word: guerilla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proves her right to the inner circle of Hollywood actresses. The supporting cast is equally good, Akim Tamiroff's performance is one of his best, and a newcomer, at least to Hollywood, named Katina Paxinour, gives a stirring portrayal of the woman-head of the guerilla band...
...within the transition experienced by Soviet literature, and gives the reader familiar only with Russian classics a basis for appreciation of contemporary Soviet effort. More detailed articles by Professors Cross and Dana on Russian literature and drama as well as J. Leyda's review of the marine engineer turned guerilla after cinema complete the issue's critical material. Many readers will find these articles unnecessarily full of unfamiliar names, but the net effect is a fine picture of the creative artistry which, under government auspices, is continuing to develop new and popular art forms...
...this material cannot be judged independently of the economic and political regime which did so much to create it and the Advocate's editors, in choosing typical rather than outstanding material, have added to the political significance. Andrel Platonov's "Armour Plate," the story of a marine engineer turned guerilla after his contact with Fascist barbarity, or Vera Inber's "Fragments from a Poem on Besieged Leningrad" are frankly wartime propaganda. But like the other pieces in the issue they are not doctrinaire, but literary blocks in the structure of Russian unity and heroism. Tikhonov's poem, "The Hunter," depicts...
...laymen who have more vital things to think about and can take their music or leave it, this guerilla warfare among the critics isn't very enlightening. Perhaps, if you read one paper or magazine long enough, you begin to catch on to what is going on and enjoy the fun. As the situation stands now, we have the critics all trying to work up a football-rally attitude toward orchestras, conductors, and even composers. "Time" magazine, for instance, loves to juggle the "Mid-Western league" against the "Eastern league," and play one conductor off against another as if American...
This cooperative movement, Pu explains, which turns out $7,000,000 worth of war materials a month, can be broken down into three main divisions: the First Line comprising 200 cooperatives along the battle fronts which helps the army and the guerilla fighters maintain themselves and also provides a market for Chinese farmers who would otherwise be compelled to sell to the Japanese; the Second Line comprising 1000 cooperatives operating in the remaining unoccupied regions of China's Southeast and Southwest; and the Rear Line in China's far west which concentrates on heavy, permanent industry...