Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Negro leader ("Emperor Marcus 1") of the defunct "Back to Africa" movement, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, purple-gowned head of the Sublime Order of the Nile and the Knights of Uganda ; in London. He organized the Black Star steamship line to transport his people to their homeland, was convicted of mail fraud in 1923, subsequently deported...
...several thousand melodies. Kodály drew lustier inspiration from the Hungarian soil than Bartók: his suite from the opera Háry János, depicting the exploits of a mythical Magyar hero, became a concert favorite. Bartók's mature music suggested his homeland only by a tricky complex of rhythms, dressed up in some of the sourest dissonances ever devised...
Perhaps it is too easy for us, behind the safety of the Atlantic tides, to say to an invaded country: "You are folish. You should not resist. You cannot win." Perhaps it is too easy for us to forget what freedom and homeland means, we who have not felt the boot of the tyrant for so long. Perhaps the cynicism which followed the First War has blinded us to the flesh-and-blood emotions which the peoples of Europe are feeling. And yet most Americans have heard the news with a sort of relief, a relief that the futility...
What that meant was that Jewish settlement of Palestine was to be brought to a close and that the "Jewish national homeland" promised by Great Britain in 1917 was squelched. In Arab Jaffa there was singing and dancing in the streets. In Jewish Tel Aviv there were prayers and parades through the streets with banners reading "WE WON'T SUBMIT!" and "DOWN WITH MACDONALD!" Meanwhile, the Palestine Jewish Agency called the restrictions a "concession to Arab political claims," said that the Jewish people "will not submit to the conversion of the Jewish national home into a ghetto...
...agreeable if upsy-downsy show, Reunion in New York would be better were its performers less wistful about their homeland. In spite of a girl who wails that she wants Artie Shaw, and not Johann Strauss, the group does quite a bit of gulping for the Wiener Wald. It's understandable; but on stage, as off, a little heartbreak goes a long...