Word: movement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alarmed, Britain's Governor last week declared the troubled province of Buganda a "disturbed area," decreed emergency police powers, and banned the U.N.M. (which simply changed its name and continued the boycott), and arrested its top leaders. But the movement ran into another kind of resistance when street food stalls refused to sell to African women who have abandoned Buganda custom by wearing chic dresses and combing their hair. Replied one local lady, in a remark that deserves a durable place in the language of the battle of the sexes: "If they boycott us, we'll girlcott them...
...Senate committee is gruff and dry-throated (Arkansas' Senator McClellan), the Senate's counsel boyish and shock-haired (Robert Kennedy). The Rank and File had more than its share of walking, talking cliches, was clearly less concerned with presenting moving characters than with characterizing a movement. But if nothing else, it succeeded in dramatizing the breathtaking reversal of political fortunes that transformed, in one generation, yesterday's picket-line victims into today's labor masters...
Rome is as happy with them as they are with Rome. After a ten-man show of U.S. artists opened at the Palazzo Venezia. II Messaggero hailed the Americans in Rome as part of "an important contemporary artistic movement." added with pride: "Hundreds of young Americans have come here in recent years without going to Paris first...
Australian patrols venturing into the central highlands of New Guinea just after World War II found that their arrival set off a tremendous religious movement. The natives killed all their pigs-principal sources of food and symbol of social position-in the belief that after three days of darkness, "Great Pigs" would appear from the sky. Imitation radio antennas made of rope and bamboo were set up to receive news of the millennium, when black skins would turn white and all the harsh demands of life would miraculously disappear...
...unchanged, says Worsley. the cargo cults persist, but with the development of modern political forms, they begin to wither away. "In Melanesia, ordinary political bodies, trade unions, and native councils are becoming the normal media through which the islanders express their aspirations ... It now seems unlikely that any major movement along cargo-cult lines will recur...