Word: movements
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Professor of Music Thomas F. Kelly discussed a movement that was playing in Literature and Arts B-51, "First Nights," six to eight students ran onstage with slogans such as "Nijinsky Lives" painted on their chests, a reference to Vaslav Nijinsky, the choreographer of the original Rite of Spring...
...Nothing [seemed] to be happening. The only movement was of people carrying bags of rice along the road," Eckert said...
...past seven years, in the face of two powerful rivals, each ready and willing to limit his influence. As a result, predicts TIME correspondent Edward Barnes, Hoffa's three-year term will prove a tough haul for the new Teamsters president at a critical time when the labor movement is struggling to regain its old political influence...
Hoffa's first challenge will come from his own nominal allies, the organized labor movement. "Hoffa will have to come to an accommodation with the AFL-CIO," says Barnes. But "it will be very difficult" for him to do that, says Barnes, because the top AFL-CIO leadership supported Ron Carey, Hoffa's predecessor and nemesis, who was ultimately toppled because of campaign irregularities. The second challenge will come from the feds, whose continuing monitoring has helped drain the union's coffers and limited its influence. To undo those shackles, says Barnes "Hoffa will have to come to Washington with...
...this heady postwar era was published between the hard covers of books. William H. Whyte's The Organization Man (1956) and Vance Packard's The Status Seekers (1959) skewered conformity within the corporation. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962) condemned corporate polluters and gave birth to the environmental movement. Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed (1965) led to drastic, overdue and life-saving changes in auto-safety standards. The underside of American business was also revealed in such hand-to-mouth, left-leaning publications as I.F. Stone's Weekly and Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker. Why these crusaders...