Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conducted more than he has played, he still gives piano concerts. Violinist Thibaud, for a time heartbroken by the loss of a son in the war, now plays in Occupied and Unoccupied France. Cellist Casals, contrary to rumor, is not in concentration camp, although as a Catalan partisan of the Loyalists he is out of favor with the Spanish Government. He gives concerts in southern France, is not allowed to return to Barcelona, where he has a large family, once had his own orchestra...
Primitive free enterprise, said he, was irresponsible and daring. The modern variety is (or is becoming) responsible, "marked by a shift from management in the aristocratic tradition of personal proprietorship to the democratic philosophy of non-partisan administration." But the danger is that it should lose its daring. In the fear that Government will out-promise and submerge a timorous enterprise system, "thus far business has relied too fully on the negative principle, 'I want to be left alone...
...last of the non-partisan college political magazines, the Harvard Guardian, has finally yielded to the influence of national events and fortified itself with the opinions and policies of the Harvard Liberal Union...
Stressed in the statement was the non-partisan character of the organization and the necessity of a long range point of view in securing a permanent peace. The immediate aim of the group was termed "defining what we mean by victory." In connection with this the Council is preparing a forum meeting for December 18th on the issues in the Far Eastern...
...establishment of non-partisan undergraduate councils to consider phases of the peace problem" is specified in the grant of funds, which explains that "college students' greatest job in the present emergency is to use their education to understand the world in which we live...