Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...capital of Ecuador, where President Galo Plaza Lasso was tiffing with his own party (Movimiento Civico Democrático National). Hottest rumors: 1) army officers were angry over slow promotions; 2) aviation officers were angry over delayed pay raises; 3) Socialist leaders were trying to organize an anti-government movement among noncoms. TIME'S Quito correspondent cabled: "The government is not shaky in the sense that it could fall-unless the army intervened...
...came to preaching to his army, his officials, and to a whole generation of students, Chiang seldom quoted the Bible. He stressed four old traditional ideas: Li ("regulated attitude"), I ("right conduct"), Lien ("honesty") and Chih ("integrity and honor"). Out of these came Chiang's "New Life Movement," which symbolized the new China; it included strictures against everything from bribery to wiping the nose on the sleeve...
This incident on a South African coach in 1893 foreshadowed a movement that has since made history. The young Indian was Mohandas Gandhi, and the nonviolent resistance he was practicing later became a mighty weapon for a weaponless people. To Gandhi himself, nonviolence was much more than a weapon; it was part of a religious way of life which he called Satyagraha. In a short book published this week-Satyagraha (Henry Regnery, $2)-Gandhi Disciple Ranganath R. Diwakar explains this philosophy to Western readers...
...audacity, "was by nature a timid soul, and never ceased to be afraid of his own deviations from the normal." Yet Butler did not fly from the safety of the conventional world into the equally safe and, in its own way, equally conventional bosom of the latest "progressive" movement. He called himself Ishmael, and prepared to take on all comers...
Student delegations from colleges in the New England area will deal with the theme "The Student and the Task of the Church" from the viewpoint of the following religious groups: YMCA, YWCA, Student Volunteer Movement, College Chapel and Administration Association, and the Baptist, Congregational, Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Unitarian Churches...