Word: movements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this country back to some status of morality as relates to people who have some service to sell, someone should start a movement to stop tipping. And that means tips to cab drivers, waiters, waitresses, barbers and the whole lot who have their greedy hands out to be greased by a tip in payment not for services rendered and to be paid for, but as an inducement for them to refrain from being nasty and rude...
Plainly, one foundation stone in this structure is the International Court of Justice. It is heartening to note that a strong movement is afoot in many parts of the world to increase acceptance of the obligatory jurisdiction of that court. I congratulate India on the leadership and vision she has shown in her new declaration [Sept. 14] accepting its jurisdiction...
...neighboring Federation of Malaya (nearly 60% Malay, 40% Chinese), shrewd Prime Minister Abdul Rahman has created a successful racial coalition-the Alliance Party-of Malays, Chinese and Indians, and has won the support of responsible Chinese by fashioning a political movement as delicately balanced as a Calder mobile...
...play is an often witty variant on a persisting theme, perhaps all the more persisting because it poses an insoluble question. The Fighting Cock concerns a retired general disgusted by a world he finds filled with "cheats" and lost to honor. He would like to stir up a movement to get rid of the "maggots." Against this testy idealist rooted in the past, Anouilh sets a number of figures who accept the way of the world, sometimes with an eye to the future. A radical laborer and a reactionary aristocrat, a pretty young wife (Natasha Parry) and a clever young...
...again, Annie meets the near-demented girl on her own level, exchanging wild slaps and pokes. Still Helen breaks away, feinting her tormentor out of position, crawling under the table, perching on her chair with a kind of prim furor, and refusing to eat. With only the exhausted movement of hip or hand, Annie expresses the depths of her combined determination and despair. She is reduced to a disheveled wreck, chest heaving, shoulders slumped, slovenly hair sloping across her face...