Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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World communism, on the Russian plan, would substitute terror for war, asserted Dorothy Thompson in New Lecture Hall last night, as she found any vigorous counter-movement by the United States impossible without "a genuine renascence of Democracy...
...Simone Beauvoir, noted French novelist and playwright and a leader in the Existentialist Movement, will lecture in French on "La Responsibilite de l'Ecrivain" this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in the Modern Language Center. Mme. Beauvoir's talk will be open to the public, and is presented under the auspices of the Department of Romance Languages...
Such startling coincidences-or, as some firmly believe, "causes"-have given rise to a new quasi-economic science which smacks of witchcraft, astrology and old-fashioned predestination. Biologists, astronomers, chemists, et al. had already found that much of the growth and movement in their fields seemed to be governed by natural cycles controlled by mysterious agencies. Could the same be true of business and industry? Did economic man have no more control over his fate than the lemmings...
Bigger than Life. In part because it concentrates on making its political points this film is as little like an ordinary movie as could be imagined. But Eisenstein, the artist, never gives way wholly to Eisenstein, the propagandist. Every movement in it is exciting, but, springing as it does against the tensions of near-standstill, it is exciting as if a corpse moved. Besides restricting motion in his movie, Eisenstein has also fought shy of realism. All of his characters, their faces and their gestures are superhuman rather than human. Most of the action takes place as closely within palace...
...then mistaken or makeshift, the U.S. Vichy policy on the whole was shrewd, sensible, unsentimental, says Langer. "Possibly if we had treated De Gaulle differently, if we had thrown ourselves behind his movement, the man himself might have become less rambunctious. . . . But this is all purely speculative. . . . In the popular mind it all reduced itself to the choice between the authoritarian regime of Vichy and the heroic crusade of De Gaulle. But unless one can demonstrate that De Gaulle and his movement could have contributed more effectively to American interests . . . the whole argument against our policy falls flat...