Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What was the "progressive movement"? Was it progressive to seek to shorten bread and soup lines by paying for the raising of less wheat, corn, sugar, and pigs? Was it progressive to array class against class in a theretofore classless nation? Was it progressive for the administration to make international commitments secretly? Was it progressive to place in the hands of a few men the power to halt production and paralyze transport? Is it progressive so to restrict industry through myriad conflicting controls that the machine which armed the anti-axis world cannot today supply the essential needs...
Then the Republicans really got to work. Governor Earl Warren, sure of re-election and silent so far in the campaign, found his voice. He took aim at Henry Wallace as "a spearhead" of an attack in California "by leftist organizations that are attuned to the Communist movement." Wallace, said the Governor, "is no more qualified to tell Californians how to vote than a man who has broken up his own home is qualified to tell his neighbors how they should regulate their family affairs...
Even manufacturers joined the resistance movement. Said the National Association of Purchasing Agents: "[Prices have become] so fantastic that purchases cannot be justified. Buying at any price to keep a plant running may be approaching...
...American Federation of Teachers, the group now under President F. O. Matthiessen, professor of English, has as it chief objectives the improvement of teaching conditions in general within the University and the maintainance of a link between university teachers, secondary school teachers, and the trade union movement in general...
More often than he borrowed from others, Aaron Copland has borrowed from himself. The Third's opening movement uses a tonal device from Appalachian Spring (1944); the fourth movement intricately develops the theme of Fanfare for the Common Man (1942). Yet there was enough original music in the Third's 40 minutes, and so skilled a reworking of the old, that it would undoubtedly add to Aaron Copland's popularity-a kind of popularity that seemed to keep him too busy to be a great composer...