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...revolution, accused the Communists of Leftist Spain of wavering toward compromise with the middle classes and betrayal of the revolution- these being the offenses of which Trotsky incessantly accuses Stalin. "As for the unification of the Socialist Party and the Communist Party I have not changed my views," cried Revolutionist Largo Caballero, whose admirers have nicknamed him the "Spanish Lenin." "All that I ask is that those who once wanted to create this fusion still hold to the same purpose which we used to put forth, which was to bring about the fusion of the two parties with a revolutionary...
...this same M. Debussy was a hardworking, painstaking composer and in music a revolutionist, if not of a very red dye. Hating the emotionalism of Wagner and other romantic composers, he created a musical language of his own, painted tone-pictures of impressions from nature, conceived a whole new palette of instrumental and harmonic colors. Critics, fond of loose similes, called him a symbolist like Poets Mallarme and Verlaine; others called him an impressionist like Painters Renoir and Monet. The latter title stuck. His work-fastidious, poetic, voluptuous and all but perfection in technique-had an immense influence...
...Return of Maxim (Lenfilm). Maxim (Boris Chirkov) personifies the spirit of the Russian revolution. Part I (The Youth of Maxim) introduced him as an oppressed worker in Tsarist Russia (TIME, April 29, 1935). His Return shows him as a wary revolutionist two years later...
Mansell was no revolutionist, but a bewildered weakling with a streak of artistic feeling. He learned his first lesson when two convicts got into a fight about him, quickly accepted the prison social distinction between "mugs" and "right." The mugs included perverts, morons, members of the choir; the others don't "run after the chaplains, nor crawl to governors, nor run with the sissies." Sickened by the perversion he saw all around him, Mansell was helped out by big, tough Bill Weldon, doing a five-year stretch for robbery, who told him that most lifers crack in the first...
...every occasion with such indignity & abuse that Flesh and Blood cannot bear it." Leader of these slippery, hard-hitting rebels (who insisted, however, they were as loyal subjects as any), was a man named James Smith. Central figure of Mr. Swanson's book, this remarkable Indian fighter and Revolutionist stands out as one of the most dramatic minor figures ever neglected by U. S. historians...