Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Concerto in D for String Orchestra struck me as a wonderful illustration of the tricks Stravinsky can play with meagre and uninteresting material. Each movement centers around one simple idea. Only the rhythmic and forceful last movement, however, really interested...
...Grasp the Future. Mao began to develop a social conscience. Once there was a famine in the Shao Shan district and the poor, asking help from the rich farmers, started a movement called "Eat Rice Without Charge." This seemed reasonable to Mao, but not to his father who, like other farmers, kept selling rice to cities despite the local famine. Young Mao read pamphlets about the Western powers that were dismembering China. He read books that proclaimed China's need to modernize herself. He began to cut classes and teach himself from books. The principal reprimanded...
When the Chinese Communist Party allied itself with Dr. Sun Yat-sen's nationalist revolutionary movement, Mao worked in the combined executive committees of the Communist Party and the Kuomintang. In this capacity he met a young Kuomintang leader who, like himself, was a country boy with the urge to take a hand in China's destiny. He was Chiang Kaishek...
...Gurion's Mapai (Labor Party) polled 35% of the vote, more than double the total of its nearest competitor. Closely bunched were the left-wing United Workers, which want alignment with Russia; the United Religious Front, which wants a state conforming to the Talmud; and the ultranationalist Freedom Movement, which wants a conquest of Palestine and Transjordan before peace is made with the Arabs. The Communists got 3.5% of the vote...
...Council, a new branch of the nonprofit New England Opera Theatre, will hand out cut-rate tickets to the Theatre's operas and sponsor free "piano lectures" by Boris Goldovsky who has sparked the movement...