Word: movement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burly, 6-ft.-2-in. Frank Cousins, 52, whose powerful Transport and General Workers' Union (1,300,000 members) last week published a resolution for September's Trades Union Congress that "rejects the principle of wage restraint and reaffirms the determination of the trade union movement, while prices and profits remain uncontrolled, to take such steps industrially as will ensure that wages keep pace with rising costs...
Britain's outstanding Roman Catholic scholar, most versatile writer, and gentlest man died this week. Msgr. Ronald Knox, 69, No. 1 convert to Catholicism since the Oxford movement, left both the monumental and the diverting behind him: a masterful translation of the Bible, a classic Limerick, a definitive history of Christianity's hot-blooded sectarianism and six popular detective novels. But it was perhaps as a man that he exerted his deepest influence on those around...
...years, in the midst of his other work, Knox labored lovingly on a history of Christian sectarianism, "mastering my authorities in trains, or over solitary meals, taking notes on rough pieces of paper and losing them." He titled the work Enthusiasm, and described the typical "enthusiastic" movement as beginning with "an elite of Christian men and (more importantly) women" trying to live closer to the Holy Spirit than their neigh- bors. "More and more, by a kind of fatality, you see them draw apart from their coreligionists, a hive ready to swarm. There is provocation on both sides . . . Then, while...
President made his own "New Life Movement" sound like nothing so much as a South Seas version of Red China's "rectification" campaign. "Our nation, building itself anew, needs the support of a mental revolution," declared Sukarno. "Mentally we must be completely rejuvenated-washed clean...
...laziness, all egocentricity, all greed, all lawlessness, all degeneration, all luxury, all opportunism, all immorality. The year 1957 is our year of decision. Shall we survive or shall we perish? We have come to the point of no return. As from this day let us launch the New Life Movement. Let us not meet it with cynicism, derision and ridicule . . . because, in truth, the intention is good. It is a movement to forge the Indonesian into a new man-purehearted, steelwilled, with the spirit of an eagle and a soul of fire...