Word: role
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indira's party took over the West Bengal government because the Communists, who won a dominant role in the government in the elections, encouraged workers to strike and imprison their employers in their offices. To oust the Reds, Congress threw its support to a defecting coalition minister, who formed a new government. In Haryana, the legislators switched parties with such rapidity that the workings of the government were paralyzed. New Delhi placed the state under direct "President's rule" and ordered new elections to be held after a one-year cooling-off period. Though two religious parties managed...
Christmas with the Troops. Militantly antiCommunist, he thundered against concessions to the Communist countries, urging a role for the U.S. in Viet Nam as far back as the mid-'50s. Indeed, his call last year for nothing less than an Allied victory in Viet Nam brought him under attack by opponents of the war. As Roman Catholic vicar of U.S. armed forces, he visited the battlefields in World War II, making it a habit-up through his trip to Viet Nam last year -to spend Christmas with American troops overseas...
...prepared for change and experiment both by life and art. It has seen-and accepted-the questioning of moral traditions, the demythologizing of ideals, the pulverizing of esthetic principles in abstract painting, atonal music and the experimental novel. Beyond that, oddly enough, younger moviemen credit television with a major role in paving the way for acceptance of the new in films...
...lifetime, he received a bronze medal at the first International Exhibition in London (1851), and Prince Metternich tried to persuade him to be cabinet-maker to the Austrian court. Thonet accepted this role part-time, but he was primarily interested in the mass production and distribution of inexpensive chairs of all types--all of them lightweight, and so attractive as to be worthy of a Prince...
...flawless supporting cast, Hattie McDaniel as Mammy gives a performance of star quality. Although a master of comic technique, she never sacrifices her role to the easy laugh; the development of her character through the years is the rock on which Gone With the Wind is built. Indeed, all the Negroes (even Butterfly McQueen, with the immortal "Lawsy, Miz Scahlet, Ah don' know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!") are so carefully individualized as characters that it is absurd to label them stereotypes or criticize the film for racial naivete...