Word: revolutionist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. General Enrique Estrada, 53, revolutionist; in Mexico City. Minister of Agriculture under President de la Huerta in 1920, he fought the revolutionists, became a revolutionist himself under the Obregon regime, fled to the U.S. in 1924, two years later was convicted of plotting a revolution against President Calles, last year was made national railways chief by President Avila Camacho...
...accepted the President's middle-of-the-road political philosophy ("not to make somebody poor to make somebody else rich"), but to the Indian there is still only one man whose voice is magic. He is another Indian, a man born to poverty who became a great revolutionist, a fireball reformist and an enduring popular hero-Lázaro Cárdenas...
...Common Reader, A Room of One's Own, Three Guineas), Critic Daiches suggests that she might have made a good political pamphleteer. It seems rather like gelding the lily. Yet Mrs. Woolf is memorable for clarity as well as iridescence. A devoted artist, she was no political revolutionist, but she had her veins of wrath. She wrote: "We may prate of democracy, but actually, a poor child in England has little more hope than had the son of an Athenian slave to be emancipated in that intellectual freedom of which great writings are born." She added: "Intellectual freedom depends...
...Russian Revolution destroyed many things, but it did nothing to destroy this nationalist musical heritage. Shostakovich admits his debt to "The Five." But he is far too much of an eclectic to stay in the nationalist groove. He is also too much of a revolutionist. His Second Symphony he subtitled October (after the October Revolution). His Third Symphony he called...
...music "un-Soviet, unwholesome, cheap, eccentric and leftist" (atonal). A few days after that, Pravda attacked his ballet, The Limpid Stream. Friends feared that Shostakovich's next composition might have to be called Stone Walls Do Not a Prison Make. But Composer Shostakovich was not a revolutionist for nothing. He publicly agreed that Pravda knew more about music than he did. He withdrew his Fourth Symphony (it has never been performed) after one rehearsal. He announced that he would stake his musical future on a Fifth Symphony...