Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sequel. Not until two years later (January 1947) did the provisional Polish government recognized by the Big Three hold its elections. They were rigged to insure Communist control. Washington and London denounced them and U.S. Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane resigned in protest over them. Mikolajczyk, who was allowed no effective voice in the provisional government or in the elections, was forced to flee abroad for safety...
Famed Viennese Conductor Erich Kleiber, 64, again learned that totalitarians always prostitute art to political dogma, again quit his job as director of the (East) Berlin State Opera (he first resigned in 1935, in protest against the Nazis), fled with his California-born wife Ruth to West Germany. Immediate reason for his break with the Reds: the inscription across the facade of the opera building, "King Frederick [in dedication to] Apollo and the Muses," had arbitrarily been ordered removed...
...deal: he would split the costs of preparing the texts if the Times would cut in the Trib. When Catledge refused. Maxwell went after the text himself. He told his Washington bureau to stir up Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen. who, in turn, asked Republican Minority Leader William Knowland to protest about the State Department's "plan to 'leak' the text to one favored Eastern newspaper...
Anne Lindbergh's answers to middle-age perplexities are never preachy, and always beautifully phrased. Her protest against "too many activities, and people, and things. Too many worthy activities valuable things, and interesting people," speaks for all sorts of harried women...
...readers who find the novels of social protest a bore, and U.S. writers who frequently hack the life out of such themes as Dutourd's, The Best Butter is a highly entertaining reminder that in good social criticism, the pin is mightier than the sword...