Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actors, many of the nuances are lost. And with the camera's greater scope, the restrictions of a single set become very apparent. Director Fred Zinnemann, who used his medium superbly in High Noon with sweeping shots of empty streets and barren railroad track, has in Member of the Wedding simply filmed a play. Despite the brilliant performances of Julie Harris and Ethel Waters, the result seems curiously static and two-dimensional...
...literature. He had joined a clandestine Socialist organization. He got a job at Tiflis Geophysical Observatory and the group began holding secret meetings in his room. Police raided the room; young Djugashvili went underground, taking his first revolutionary nickname: Koba (meaning Indomitable). He became a strike agitator among Tiflis railroad men, but was soon run down by Czarist police, jailed and deported to Siberia. In absentia, he was elected a member of the executive of the All-Caucasian Federation of Social Democratic groups...
Last week, traveling by railroad, buses and horse-drawn carts, 300,000 of India's remaining Jains gathered at the feet of Gomateswara's statue to celebrate Mahamastakabhisheka (the anointing of the head), a festival last observed in 1940. Day & night, pilgrims climbed the hill, chanting Gomateswara's name, and throughout the night floodlights lit up the statue. Jain sanyasis (holy men) were present to sanctify the occasion. Some of them were naked, following Gomateswara's own legendary example, to demonstrate their renunciation of earthly ties...
...have strength and fire to attract followers; he must be tough and crafty and fearless to make headway against convention. At the turn of the century, old "Fighting Bob" La Follette of Wisconsin was such a man. Millions listened to his rebel yell and to his attacks on the railroad and lumber interests as he fought his way into the governor's mansion in Wisconsin. But the fierce old reformer sensed that his progressive movement would not be fulfilled in his own time, so he bequeathed his fame and following to his sons. From the moment of his birth...
...worth of Chesapeake & Ohio common, making him the railroad's biggest individual stockholder...