Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...staccato tune of German firing squads executing more than 65 French hostages in Rouen, St. Nazaire and Paris, five top members of Vichy's Embassy in Washington headed by Counselor Léon Marchal, saw fit to resign their posts and join the De Gaullist Free French movement...
...democracies used to enjoy what Author de Sales calls the "pendulum movement." "The pendulum movement from Right to Left and from Left to Right has been characteristic of all democracies during the 19th Century and up to a few years ago. A period of consolidation and sometimes of reaction has normally followed a period of social reform. . . . It can be argued that this cyclical behavior assured the stability of democratic institutions during the times when only a few extremist groups challenged the advantages of democracy over any other form of government. But this easy and regular pulsation of democratic organisms...
...disruption of the pendulum movement was less real because "American conservatism is a powerful shock absorber." Rightly or wrongly, Author de Sales believes that the third-term election of Franklin Roosevelt "had two important consequences: on the vertical plane-that is, nationally-the American electorate expressed its willingness to play a part, at least temporarily, in world affairs. . . . On the horizontal plane it recognized the implications of the revolutionary forces and their possible effect on the evolution of American democracy...
...will probably survive many more. The recent Columbia recording of the Fifth is the most satisfactory to date, Bruno Walter and the Vienna Philharmonic giving it a more intelligent and broadly conceived reading than that of the present Toscanini recording wherein the Maestro's excessive zeal transformed the first movement into a severe case of the jitters...
...wasn't much impressed either by Toscanini's recording of the Brahms First for Victor despite its technical brilliance. The last movement was crratic in tempo and over-sentimentalized, and throughout there was too much theatre and too little attention to the continuity of the music. Victory seems to be working the Toscanini legend for more than it is worth at the expense of their own standards. When he is good, as in the Victory "Gotterdacmmerung" recordings, he is superb, but he is getting old and of late his performances have lacked evenness...