Word: peasant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hungary. "Money, money! Give me money, Papa Zukor!" screamed a coarse-faced peasant woman in the village of Ricse last week, thrusting up a hand that half begged, half threatened at Cinema Tycoon Adolph Zukor, who with Mrs. Zukor was revisiting his Hungarian birthplace...
...call anybody. Young Pioneers, like Boy and Girl Scouts, are taught to "live clean," to do "good deeds," but the emphasis of the movement is on "pioneer propaganda." such as trying to argue religious members of a young Pioneer's family out of belief in God. teaching peasant children Communistic doctrines, distributing the Soviet Government's instructive pamphlets on every subject from tractors to midwifery...
...picture, which deals with the trial of Joan for witchery is an artist's, not a historian's, attempt to strip the legend-wrapped saint and discover the simple peasant girl that was the real Joan. She lives in the pages of Mark Twain and of Shaw, but she moves and breathes more convincingly still in the superbly restrained portrayal of Mile, Falconetti...
...principles laid down by the central authorities it becomes evident that a Kulak would be a "poor farmer" in the United States or Germany. Over the breadth and sweep of Russia, conditions are variable. To accord with these varying conditions, a Kulak has been defined by law as a peasant who uses hired labor or machinery, who rents house or room, leases land or orchard, or engages in trade, speculation, "or any other source of non-productive income, including income as religious or secular employees of churches...
...woman's soul, next to her heart. The speech is naturally modulated, emotions are patent on the faces, the scenery is as realistic as a vaudeville backdrop. In Kage-No-Chikara (The Shadow Man) a provincial lord steals the fiancee and murders the father of a peasant. This lad then learns the art of fighting and, with the aid of a sinister friend of his father's known as "The Shadow Man," wreaks revenge on the noble. This play exhibits the dueling which is a characteristic element of the Ken-Geki. It consists of fearsome attitudes struck with...