Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lewis Kokeny, mild-mannered deputy president of the Hungarian branch of the movement, made a keynote speech with a curious iron-curtain slant. Said he: "We modern Esperantists do not concern ourselves any more with the old idea of corresponding in Esperanto with people in faraway places . . . That was an oldfashioned, romantic idea . . . Our immediate neighbors are what count." Western Esperantists, he admitted, still believe that their language should remain "politically neutral." On this point Kokeny was firm. "Here we are convinced that Esperanto must cooperate with progress and that neutrality is not possible...
...today, when Wallace denounces every criticism as Red-baiting, the Wallace movement is a twofold tragedy. It is the tragedy of Henry Wallace, a weak leader driven by ambition, bitterness and self-delusion into a misconception of the promised land. It is also the tragedy of the sincere people whom he is leading into a wilderness...
...first, picketing was peaceful. Then, after pickets broke up a back-to-work movement, Univis got a court order re stricting picketing. Later, nine men & women were fined for violence, two of them given jail sentences. The U.E. local and international were fined $250 apiece...
...first husband George Cram ("Jig") Cook led the experimentalists' rebellion against Broadway commercialism at their ramshackle Wharf Theater in Provincetown, gave Eugene O'Neill's first plays their first performances, helped found Manhattan's famed Provincetown Players in 1916, and wet-nursed the little-theater movement...
...General Clay gave emphatic evidence that the U.S. was not to be stampeded. Said he: "We are going to continue to fly our airplanes no matter what happens in the air corridors." Then, borrowing a leaf from Soviet tactics, he and his British counterpart issued an order prohibiting the movement of all trains into and out of the Russian zone. The reason: "technical difficulties...