Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...learned tactics at the knee of Sam Gompers, who had campaigned fervently for, then violently against Franklin Roosevelt, had regularly undermined the economy with his coal strikes (statisticians blame his miners for 25% of all workdays lost by strikes in the 22 years before 1949). Here was the rebel who had founded the C.I.O., left it, rejoined the A.F.L., left it ("TheA.F.L. has no head; its neck just growed and haired over"). There were flashes of the old defiant Lewis who had traded hot words with Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough and accepted historic contempt fines...
...Kennedy bill's restrictions against Hoffa's hoodlum unionism, but at the same time he opposes the minor "Bill of Rights" amendments, which would also curb activities of unions in general. Result: if he continues to support the bill, some of his A.F.L.-C.I.O. supporters may rebel, thus clearing the driveway for Hoffa's onslaught against A.F.L. power; but if he fights the bill, he will be helping Hoffa to save his own neck...
...hand-picked tool of some shrewd leftist Italian conspirators-political stage managers who are using him to inspire and excite the crowd. To the conspirators, Angelo is a mere straw man whose ultimate "destiny is to be burned. "All that is asked of him," says a plump rebel plotter named Bon-dino, "is to make a lot of smoke . . . under cover of which we can get to work...
Arthur Koestler, 53, is an ex-rebel without a cause. In the '305, he was a Communist; in the '40s and well into the '50s, a trenchant antiCommunist. While he remains as firmly anti-Red as ever, he seems to have wearied of the battle. A few years ago, the author of Darkness at Noon announced: "Cassandra has gone hoarse and is due for a vocational change." Lately, the polemicist has turned pedagogue. The Sleepwalkers is an animated and diverting lecture on cosmology, man's vision of the universe from the Babylonians to Newton...
...revolutionary spirit of John Reed '10 may not be dead. About 40 undergraduates have responded to a recent call for volunteers to fight the rebel cause in Tibet...