Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...picketers, including members of the Radcliffe-Harvard New American Movement and the Democratic-Socialist Organizing Committee, support the UFW and its claims that the Gallo Co. signed unfair labor contracts with the Teamsters' union in 1973. Gallo spokesmen deny the charge and say the company considers the boycott unfair...
Twinge of Irritation. Politics being politics, no one was going to accuse Wilson of outright plagiarism. But Heath, whose own days as Conservative leader are clearly numbered, must have felt a small twinge of irritation when the Prime Minister, who had campaigned as an unabashed socialist, announced that his new Labor government would act quickly to ease the serious cash shortages of British industry. Wilson even issued a mild warning to his union supporters that they would be allowed no more than their fair share of Britain's ever shrinking economic...
...ambivalences and ambiguities work. All through the sonata Ives keeps returning to the first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, but they sound with a double edge. Beethoven meant to Ives all that was most progressive, most substantial, most radical--the "last sublime echoes of the greatest socialist symphonies" and "the relentlessness of fate knocking at the door." But in the third movement of the sonata, "The Alcotts," Ives made the four notes over, into an old hymn tune, as peaceful and completed as the camp-meeting songs his grandmother had sung. The tune recurs throughout the sonata...
Several Harvard groups--including the New American Movement, the Center for United Labor Action, and the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee--have picketed at the Harvard Provision Co. for several months...
...what he called his "labor of love." Asian Drama: An Inquiry Into the Poverty of Nations pointed up, in 2,500 pages, the economic, political and social factors that impede progress in the world's most populous area. An apostle of thoroughgoing Swedish-style planning, Myrdal is a socialist who became in the late 1960s-though professing a sincere affection...