Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fighting flared anew in The Netherlands East Indies last week. The nationalist movement seemed to be getting out of its leaders' control. At Surabaya 1,600 British troops, attacked by large Javanese forces, well armed with Jap equipment, including tanks, had some 100 casualties. President Soekarno of the "Indonesian Republic" flew from Batavia to give a cease-fire order. The next day native hotheads killed Surabaya's British Commander, Brigadier Aubertin W. S. Mallaby...
...apparently do not wholly trust each other, are usually interviewed together so that each can check on what the other says. Hatta drafted the movement's constitution, which is full of escape clauses (the President has dictatorial powers "at critical times;" freedom of speech and assembly are not guaranteed, but "shall be provided...
...musical theory and composition, but an ear infection made him too deaf to go on with it. At 17, he went to Paris to study art and slavishly imitated his teachers, Van Dongen and Modigliani. Back home he discovered and concentrated on Guatemalan folk themes, spearheading the racial art movement which revolutionized Latin American painting. Later he went abstract, tried to paint a kind of visual music which would be empty of pictorial meaning, but beautifully composed and rich in color harmonies. In 1937 Mérida got tired of pure abstractionism, and began combining it with vaguely recognizable shapes...
Henley fought with vigor from the editorial chairs of some half-dozen magazines, including the famed National Observer. He had three great enemies: 1) the new esthetic movement, 2) Socialism (which he termed "the Dominion of the Common Fool") and 3) the powerful Victorian convention that all writing must be tailored to suit young ladies...
Perhaps the most positive fruit of Novelist Lewis' recent flirtation with the little-theater movement was his friendship with Marcella Powers. She acted with him in a number of plays (see cut). Miss Powers decorated Lewis' Manhattan apartment (where he wrote much of his new novel, Cass Timberlane). When he bought (for a reputed $26,000) his Tudor mansion in Duluth, Miss Powers went out to visit him and decorate that. Says Lewis, when asked if he is planning to marry again: "No signs of it." Say his friends: "We just don't know...