Word: movement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...growing up untutored and illiterate. The regime has no popular support. It's like Batista's government in Cuba last New Year's Eve. It's perpetuated in power solely by force. Alas, it is difficult to create a guerrilla campaign like the Fidel Castro movement in Cuba because Portugal is too closely policed, populated and cultivated-it doesn't have Cuba's jungle areas...
...apron and bringing down the cost of living. Nine years ago, with $40, he opened a stall behind his house in Landerneau, near Brest, offering staple groceries only 8% above cost. Today some 30 Leclerc-sponsored groceries are operating in Brittany, Normandy and central France, and the movement is spreading over the nation. Recently, a rumor that a Leclerc store was about to be opened in Tours dropped food prices...
Died. Georges Cardinal Grente, 86, one of France's eight cardinals, member of the French Academy, author (The Life and Passion of Jeanne d'Arc), worker in the French Resistance movement in World War II; of influenza; in Le Mans, France, where he served as archbishop...
Zane's novel is not particularly outstanding; but its deficiencies are less his than those of the movement and the life which he writes about. The paucity of thought and craftsmanship which mark the novels of Beatland (On The Road is the bible of this pagan country) betray the trivial superstructure which American beats have errected upon a set of basic and simple propositions about the society they reject and the values they seek to transcend. In short, the beat generation is a barren subject-matter, and the more one has to say about it, the more one becomes repetitious...
...also written novels, plays, collections of criticism, and a discussion of the socialist movement, To The Finland Station...