Word: overthrown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suffered at all from his sudden relegation to the status of an only child. This book, although written a year ago while Stalin was still God, might well be dedicated to any die-hard anti-Communists who still expect to hear momentarily that the Peking regime has been overthrown. While they wait, such people should read China: New Age and New Outlook. It will bring them back to reality in a hurry...
...World. Before he had a real world to play with, Winston Churchill created the toy world of "Laurania" in which a "dictator" is overthrown by a liberal revolution; then, as happened often enough later, the liberals find that they have set sinister forces in motion. Before they are suppressed, Laurania is rent by explosions, duels, gunshot and high-flown mayhem, all set forth in an absurdly magnificent style...
Eisenstein's plans for the movie were as grand as the scale on which he worked. Intellectually, then, it is a tough movie. The events of the ten days in which Kerensky's Provisional Government was overthrown by the Bolsheviks are subordinated to Eisenstein's own response to them: the pattern that he makes of the events and the opportunities he sees in them for experiments in film technique. Since the pattern is diffuse and the opportunities unlimited, it is not an easy movie and it does not always "entertain." The movie is no easier to follow for the cuts...
...Algeria. If France's governing center cannot get together and stay together, there are two legal ways out of such a marriage. A future Premier can dissolve the Parliament and call for new elections, as Faure did-but not until the Assembly has sat for 18 months and overthrown two Premiers by an Assembly majority...
Thus Oliver Goldsmith saw the inhabitants of 18th century London. Their armies under Marlborough had defeated Europe's greatest power on its own soil; they had overthrown the old religion and prospered. The revolution of 1688, which guaranteed a Protestant monarch, seemed to have fixed everything. But the bloody slogans of church-state and King-Commons still echoed in English ears, and men who no longer wished to hear a bugle or a Mass would listen to Handel, conversation, politics and smut. Often they listened to the Very Rev. Jonathan Swift, Anglican dean of St. Patrick...