Word: movement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fringe benefits, the union would have to agree to contract changes to "cut the cost of steelmaking." With high labor costs squeezing U.S. steel out of foreign markets (TIME, July 20), the steel companies had a solid argument for holding costs down. Revelations of corruption in the labor movement had weakened organized labor's influence. And the U.S. public was fed up with price upcreep...
Against U.S. landings on Leyte, the Japanese had prepared a plan known as SHO-1, aimed at bringing "general decisive battle." SHO1 called for a pincers movement against the U.S. landing forces in Leyte Gulf. The strongest Japanese force, under Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita, was to steam through the Sibuyan Sea, debouch through San Bernardino Strait (see maps) and head south to Leyte Gulf. Two smaller forces, operating independently under Vice Admirals Shoï Nishimura and Kiyohide Shima, were to come through Surigao Strait, move north and close the pincers with Kurita. Meanwhile, a fleet under canny old Vice Admiral...
...Return all unused bases to the Philippines and turn Olongapo back to Filipino civilian administration. ¶Consult with the Philippine government before basing long-range missiles in the Philippines, and on all movement of Philippine-based forces not covered by the SEATO and U.S.-Philippine mutual-defense treaties...
...interest is in the whole literary movement beginning with James and ending with Faulkner," Edel says. "James is just beginning to move in the direction of the subjective, of `inside experience.' Why is he more popular now than before? I think the reason is that he understood what happens when two people meet. He's the great novelist of `interpersonal relationships', to use psychological jargon...
...Creative Act. Pasternak was influenced by an esthetic movement in Russian poetry that rebelled against the didactic, social-protest verse of the late 19th century. He was briefly drawn to the "Futurists." with their sprung rhythms and staccato, telegraphic style. But in many ways he also harks back to the English romantics. With them-Blake, Shelley, Keats-Pasternak sees nature as the handwriting on God's wall, or at least as the outward sign of an unseen and perhaps mystical order of things. And with the romantics, Boris Pasternak shares the belief that the creative imagination is itself divine...