Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began to work for Indian independence. He found India's "struggle" for independence in the hands of a few well-educated Indians. The Indian National Congress,* was a polite debating society, pledged to win dominion status for India by "legitimate" means. Gandhi converted it into a mass movement. Indian peasants did not worry about independence until Gandhi told them...
...forgot about the kings and their women and their breached and crumbling walls. I was introduced to the Korean National Youth Movement, which wears blue uniforms, and is recruited from husky young...
Walter Hampden, romantic Shakespeare-&-Cyrano stage favorite of the '20s & '30s, decided it was time to retire, at 67. From California, stately, large-gestured Actor Hampden made a little curtain speech damning the modern fashion of "underplaying" a role, darkly warned that "this movement can result only in the hobbling of dramatic...
...writing them. His most successful swipe was Chopin's Polonaise in A Flat, which he turned into Till the End of Time. It was the best-selling jazz record of 1945.* Taking Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 apart, he extracted Ever and Forever from the first movement, and Full Moon and Empty Arms from the third. He rewrote the Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde and called it Time Stands Still. He converted Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf into Dingbat the Singing Cat and is now waiting for When I Write My Song...
...Princeton's Henry Morris Russell, 69, grey, wispy-haired professor of astronomy. One of the world's leaders in his field, he developed a way of measuring movement of stars by photography, established giant and dwarf star groups, was one of two Princeton men to win doctorates in physics summa cum laude. Professor Russell once predicted that, in about a billion years, the earth's atmospheric oxygen will be used up, and in a few billion more "the universe will be thoroughly uninteresting...