Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...protest against Communist genocide behind the Iron Curtain...
...Shahn, 53, "protest painter," whose expressionism packs a wallop: Ave, Composition With Clarinets and Tin Horn, Epoch...
Next day hundreds crowded city hall, sure that there must be some mistake. But there wasn't. The mayor called a meeting of protest, but the Socialist-Communist majority on the town council upheld Salati's assessments. Then a strange thing occurred in the quiet town of Guastalla. Businessmen and shopkeepers called for a six-hour strike against Salati. Every bar and shop in town closed. Local factories sent their workers home. Buses ceased running. Even the Communist-run cooperative store shut its door (for this, Manager Affro Tavernelli was later relieved of his party card). Guastalla became...
...religious houses should be allowed to look at the outer world on television. Before one of the sisters' discussion sessions, it was discovered that a priest was to address them on the subject of modern comforts and conveniences. Up rose a seven-member nuns' committee to protest. Said Mother Mary Gerald, O.P., "Why should any man tell us about our comforts and conveniences?" Four nuns were hastily scheduled to speak in the priest's place...
...barbouilleur [dauber], and there are lots of artists who paint better than I do . . ." One who heartily agreed with him was Painter Maurice Utrillo's peppery wife, Lucie Valore, who had seen Bombois' painting of her husband in a Paris gallery and sent Bombois an indignant protest: "The expression on Utrillo's face is too demoniacal, and you have painted his nose much...