Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small Wallace vote, while it might not have the same inimical effect on Democratic chances, would, by the same token, produce few long range results because neither party would feel obliged to take account of the political ideology contained in the Wallace movement...
Regardless of its size, there is a good deal of justification for the feeling of many liberal Democrats that the Wallace third party movement will weaken their bargaining position. The leadership of the Democratic party may well believe that it is now to their advantage to deprecate any and all parts of the Wallace program...
There is some doubt that the Wallace movement is a genuine third party movement of the same type as the Populist, Progressive, or early Republican parties. At this point Wallace does not have the support of organized labor, the supposed core of any contemporary rebellion. Nor is there the same widespread discontent that has accompanied other third parties. Not since the Republicans rose from obscurity to power on the issue of slavery has there been a strong third party movement except in times of economic stress. Traditionally third parties have been able to make a good showing only when...
...vibrato is a regular movement in the voice . . . coming from an off-&-on impulse of the diaphragm in tension. ... A tremolo is a very irregular movement in the voice . . . deriving from a fluttering movement of the tongue. As this movement grows worse it includes the jaw, larynx and, in advanced cases, the entire head...
...McNeill calls Hooker's Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity "the crowning literary expression of the English Reformation. . . ." McNeill credits 16th Century Theologian Hooker with being the "primary inspirer" of the rationalistic approach to theology, whose views on church government might well be useful to the present-day church-unity movement: "It is far from impossible that the future reunion of the churches of the Reformation . . " will follow the lines of Hooker's broad-church episcopal theory. . . .But even if he should fail to win us to agreement with him, the reading of his pages cannot fail...