Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Society Bandleader Meyer Davis, was an eccentric freak who camped on the U.N.'s doorstep, heckled its deliberations. A self-declared citizen of the world who had surrendered his U.S. passport, he was a pathetic lone voice. By last week he was the leader of a surging popular movement. It had surprised him as much as anyone, and it was carrying him along on its crest. TIME'S Paris Bureau Chief André Laguerre cabled...
...world citizenship. A fair man with a toothbrush mustache and an American accent was saying: "I think I was born in Holland-I think so, mind you." Another young man, very dark and ill-shaven, introduced himself to me crisply: "I am the French press attache of this movement. I was appointed only yesterday, so there is little I can tell you about Garry Davis. However, I can tell you a lot about the Trotskyists, with whom I used to have numerous affiliations...
...President will surely be stalled in others. Lobbyists will still be influential; an alliance of Dixiecrafts and Republicans will probably be able to block some important bills. But the importance of the state of the government this year is that now, after a brief Republican hiatus, the movement towards the human welfare society in America will continue. The President must fight just as hard in the future as he fought before November's election. But he now has a Congress that can be managed by Fair Dealers, and expectations of victories are more than justified...
...stage door just ten minutes before he was scheduled to start Brahms's B Minor Quintet with the Busch Quartet. But listeners, when they could hear his clarinet over the Busch's whirring blizzard of sound, found nothing snowbound about his playing. Instead, in the slow movement, which he had more, to himself, they heard the kind of soft, singing tone and delicate phrasing which won him fame alike among "straight" players and what he calls "the other kind"-meaning lowbrow jazz musicians...
...Grand Design is one of those books that can be read by itself, as a slow movement of a symphony can be played by itself, but will be best understood by those who know what went on before it. With The Grand Design, Dos Passes returns to a series of novels he began ten years...