Word: marxists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Waldo Frank, 47, is an inverted Theodore Dreiser, a modern transcendentalist, a mystical Marxist. He is also, at times and in spots, a forceful novelist. Combining passion and penetration with plodding Joycean prose and purblind bookishness, he is a perfect layer cake of the admirable and the irritating...
...made some remarks about Rivera. Rivera found the remarks "unacceptable." Trotsky dispatched a friend to Rivera with 200 pesos ($40) as rent, so as to be free of obligation. Without indicating whether he thought that was enough rent for a two-year stay, Rivera handed the cash to a Marxist magazine, Cleve. Trotsky felt snubbed. Last week the two men came to a parting of the ways: Léon Trotsky announced that he was quitting the Rivera house, Diego Rivera promptly announced that he was quitting the Trotsky movement...
...Arthur) Marx, 45, makes standard practice of bounding like a bandersnatch after pretty blondes. He married (1936) a pretty brunette, Cinemactress Susan Fleming. Year ago the Marxes took in an infant on approval, last week legally adopted him. His name: William Woollcott (after their good friend Alexander Woollcott, devoted Marxist...
Last year, after, reading Marx, Engels and Lenin, Haldane became a Marxist. The natural result of this was a book. The Marxist Philosophy and the Sciences. which Author Haldane published last fort night.* He believes, as does many another, that Marxism is the most scientific of all political philosophies, draws many a parallel between the evolution of society and the evolution of science...
...House conceived the idea of a "symposium," consisting of student impersonations of great men of the past. In this way it was possible, for example, to portray the repercussions of Darwinian thought on economics, philosophy, literature, and religion of the nineteenth century. Last week a similar project, built around Marxist theory, was so successful that it stimulated a heated audience discussion of Stalin and Trotsky, and recreated the exciting days of the 20's when control of the Party in Russia was still in doubt. If proof were needed, that debate proved that the "symposium" method of inter-field discussion...