Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact Social Realism is the aesthetic implication of a particular ideology, and its representation of events is objective insofar as you share in the ideology. One need only listen to a member of Progressive Labor--the sponsors of this showing of Potemkin--tell you what "objectively" happened at an event, as opposed say to what you thought you were experiencing, to know just how useless the word "objective" has become...
...copies of a protest against the ar rest of a political dissident, in a taxi. The charge: "Preparing and distributing false fabrication defaming the Soviet state and social structure." It took the court only five hours to find her guilty and sen tence her to one year in a labor camp...
...scenes reminiscent of labor wars in the 1930s, the nation's campuses erupted in more violence last week. At Roosevelt University in Chicago, rebels invaded the president's office and ripped out telephones in a demonstration seeking amnesty for fellow rebels. Deputy sheriffs prevented seizure of the ad ministration building at Eastern Michigan University by 200 students, cut chains off the doors and arrested twelve demonstrators. At Berkeley, 100 police men clashed with thousands of demonstrators supporting a month-long strike for Third World Liberation Front demands. Pelted with rocks, bottles and fire bombs, the cops fought back...
...professional ballplayers are relative newcomers to this sort of labor dispute. While the association leaders argued, its members were hardly demonstrating true trade-union solidarity. Last week, torn between duty to teammates and job security, a few began to bolt. Catcher Jerry Grote, for instance, said that he backed the boycott but, since he had signed his contract with the New York Mets "some time ago," he felt it only proper that he should report to training camp. "If it had been any one of the 23 other teams," he quickly added, "I wouldn't have signed. But this...
Died. Kingsley Martin, 71, eminent British Socialist and editor of the New Statesman from 1931 to 1960, whose radical views helped shape Labor Party policy and colored the entire fabric of British politics; of a stroke; in Cairo. When Martin came to the New Statesman, it was an insignificant left-wing weekly with a small readership and less clout. Martin drew his Fabian Society friends (G. B. Shaw, H. G. Wells) to the pages of the magazine, made it Britain's foremost intellectual forum, increased circulation to 80,000. His own influential column, "London Diary," was Utopian in thrust...