Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back in Indo-China, seeking fresh testing places for his soul, and "something outside himself" in revolutions. He organized the "Young Annam" movement, then moved on to Canton. There he met Mikhail Borodin, Russian adviser to China's revolutionaries. Malraux in 1925 helped organize the Canton general strike aimed at British Hong Kong and directed propaganda for the Communist wing of the Kuomintang. He lingered on in China, was probably in Shanghai shortly after the Communist uprising in 1927. Between revolutions, he wandered the world, from India to Japan, from Central Asia to the U.S., to see and judge...
...Fate) broke upon the intellectual world like a revolutionist's bomb. Its theme was the 1927 revolt of the Chinese Communists in Shanghai, when they tried to wrest the city from foreign control, only to die when Chiang Kai-shek turned on them and bloodily suppressed their strike. Its intellectual revolutionists spoke of revolution as lyrically as a mystical communion, a tragic but glorious experience which transfigured men. It made his generation aware of a new kind of contemporary hero, the "engaged man," at grips with the vital issues of history. It won the Prix Goncourt, and Gide described...
...question has just been crystallized by the attitude taken by both parties toward the problem of government ownership of all electric power facilities. In Britain the public ownership fever, known as "nationalization," has about run its course. There are evidently leaders of the Democratic party who think they can strike pay dirt in the issue of public power. What needs to be re-examined is how far the Democratic party wants to go in committing itself to government ownership as a principle in national policy. The Democrats are toying openly with ideas of state socialism-they are still the radical...
Louis Wolfson, who normally loves the spotlight, was busy dodging it. He ducked a senatorial subpoena ordering him to testify in the strike of the Wolfson-controlled Capital Transit Co., which has forced thousands of Washingtonians to hitch rides or walk to work during the past two weeks. Despite the inconvenience, Washingtonians seemed almost solidly against Employer Wolfson and in favor of his employees, striking for a 25?-an-hour pay hike and other benefits. Crying that Wolfson was an "economic carpetbagger," Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse introduced a bill to strip Capital Transit of its franchise...
...strike, Capital Transit blamed the District of Columbia Public Utilities Commission, which had refused the company permission for its fourth fare rise since Wolfson took over...