Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many of the provisions of the anti-labor laws, now being considered by congress, are not-designed to correct some acknowledged faults of unions, but to weaken the entire union movement. Labor unions are a necessary part of our capitalist system. Only through effective organization can the workers' bargaining power be equalized with that of management. If we are to achieve economic stability this organization must be preserved...
Whether the composer adhered in this one movement Trio to the twelve-tone system or strict atonality seems no longer relevant, for this system is essentially something that merely schematizes a texture common to a variety of chromatic music written today. Chromaticism is merely one of several formulae conducive to an additive set of interrupted expostulations. And what we have, then, is not one work of art, but several, minute fragmentary ones. Only at fleeting instances when Schoenberg suddenly gave symmetry to his expression did its mastery and genius drive home to this prejudiced listener...
...question of the Communist's position in today's liberal movements, he issued a call for all progressive groups to work together. "A group like AVC can never be worthwhile as long as it is a debating ground on Communism," he added later. "It does not hurt Communists but does harm the progressive movement...
Alan Barton '45 speaking for the amendment stressed that if all men joined SDA the HLU would gain "a prominent place in the student movement of the United States," and that Communists in a liberal organization "perverted it to their own ends...
...shows up at regular meetings and only a quarter at elections, the implementation of any action program is formidably difficult. The awakening and solidification of the membership must therefore be a primary objective. Before the popular imagination can be captured, the imagination of the people who will lead the movement must be captured. Showmanship in accomplishing this should not be eschewed: well-publicized "big-name" speakers, well-drawn posters or handbills aimed at bringing indifferent members into activity, radio time-almost anything to awaken the nucleas of the future...