Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some observers thought the movement, despite its peculiarly widespread character, was spontaneous. Giuseppe Lorenzini, a partisan brigade leader, declared that it had been fomented and financed by the Communist Party. Chief point of interest: were the Communists trying to organize a Tito-like partisan movement to harass the Allied rear in case of a Yugoslav move against Trieste...
...Lisan had lost face. His young rivals for party leadership, Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai (until then an executioner for the Communist Party in Shanghai), insisted that the Communists in China should henceforth base their shattered movement on the dissatisfied peasants. Li insisted that it must be based on the factory workers. In a fierce, undercover, dialectic struggle, Li Lisan was forced out of the leadership. He went to Russia, where friends got him a job in Moscow's famed Far Eastern University, training ground for Russia's Asiatic agents. He married a Russian wife. Meanwhile...
Help from Paris. It was 1920 before Canada could boast of anything like an "art movement." Then, led by J. E. H. MacDonald, a handful of painters who were tired of being pushed aside at exhibitions formed the "Group of Seven." Most of them had studied in Paris, picked up a smattering of impressionism but nothing more radical than that. What united them was a love of the Far North where they spent their vacations...
...dripping sheep carcasses, eggs, fruit and vegetables in the stewing narrow streets of the Old City. Arab merchants, sitting cross-legged on bolts of cloth, still tried to entice customers in the bazaars of King David's Street. But the vendors were wary and sharp-eyed. Any sudden movement of police or soldiers was likely to bring the clang of rung-down iron shutters, a scurrying for cover. For in Jerusalem (or Haifa or Tel-Aviv or Jaffa) sudden action might mean an exchange of shots. "It is our worst year," said one Arab. "There is no spirit...
Elite Assemblymen denounced the movement as fascist. The military junta met it with armored cars and mounted machine guns. The night before the election, voodoo drums beat feverishly in the lower town, and there were rifle shots. The Garde killed two, wounded...