Word: kropotkin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also a more sinister cause. U.S. universities, he found, were plagued by an enervating sense of guilt-a "state of mind of academic persons . . . whom war service or some other sharp new experience has made painfully aware of the social and economic miseries of their society. Like the youthful Kropotkin ... a student or professor in this condition wonders whether it can be right for him to continue to absorb himself in the study of, let us say, the early Greek epic at Harvard, while the poor of south Boston go hungry and unshod...
...spiritual vocation. In city streets, in buses and in quiet parks he was always beginning discussions with strangers. These conversations were not casual. Each was carefully designed to "make a point," as he liked to say; they were dialogues carefully distilled from the works of such writers as Peter Kropotkin, G. K. Chesterton and Eric Gill...
...Muscovites queue up at the pari-mutuel windows of the Moscow State Hippodrome shows that a difference of opinion can still exist (on some points) in the totalitarian state. The horses have inspiring names: Ore Production, Tractor II, Ten Days, Karl Marx. Right now, the favorite is Kropotkin. Though they are all state-owned, there is no suspicion that they run according to plan...
Most of The Day Is Coming takes place in the East End, whose slums have long been a happy hunting ground for reformers and revolutionaries. Among the hunters: George Bernard Shaw, Karl Marx's daughter Eleanor ("Tussy") Marx Aveling, Russian Anarchist Prince Peter Kropotkin, Socialist Poet and Craftsman William Morris-all of whom appear in Author Cameron's novel. The hero is a young proletarian named Arthur Cullen. When young Cullen heard that William Morris planned to mitigate the horrors of industrial progress by reviving medieval handicrafts, he became the great man's ardent disciple...
...successful escape from a German prison camp of Jean Hélion, French soldier and abstractionist painter, ranks with the escape of Casanova from the Leads, or Peter Kropotkin from the fortress of Peter & Paul. This book is the detailed description of Hélion's two-year imprisonment and flight (TIME, Nov. 23). As a breath-taking narrative of captivity and escape and as a unique firsthand description of the miseries of life among Germany's French prisoners, They Shall Not Have Me is one of the half-dozen most remarkable books of World...