Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Students for Democratic Action, the Harvard Liberal Union, and the Radcliffe League for Democracy, who attended a reception in honor of Robert Kenney, National Co-Chairman of PCA, agreed that "there is no need for another political organization but there is used for work on behalf of the liberal movement...
...able leaders she could find. T.V.'s new job: Governor of his native Kwangtung Province. There, he would be able to get some first-hand experience in governing a province-which might prove quite a job, since it has been reported that there is a separatist movement in Kwangtung. He also might find time to squelch smuggling...
Planter Kuper reported that Communists had taken advantage of unemployment in the copra industry to incite the islanders. The movement, also called "Marching Rule" (Marxian Rule), was led by natives from Malaita Island, traditional headhunters who had been proselytized by Australian Communist servicemen. The Malaita agitators, according to Kuper, were in touch with a U.S.-organized Communist cell on Guadalcanal...
...massive Metropolitan, they decided, should concern itself with "classic" art (denned as art which "has become part of the cultural history of mankind"). The glassy, faddish Museum of Modern Art took for its bailiwick everything "still significant in the contemporary movement." And Greenwich Village's Whitney Museum-the youngest of the three, and something of a poor relation at the conference table-agreed to stick...
...symphony he picked is really Gillis' sixth, but because it is so short (14 minutes) Gillis decided to call it Symphony 5½. Its four movements-Perpetual Emotion, Spiritual?, Scherzofrenia, Conclusion!-jump from low-down to hoedown, owe more to Gershwin than to Bach. Gillis gave the third movement its punning title "because it can't quite make up its mind whether to go the Haydn-Mozart route...