Word: hauntedness
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Is his objective a strong, unified labor movement? No labor leader in U.S. history has split labor into so many parts and hacked off so many splinters. Does he really give a damn for labor? He speaks of labor in sweeping, lofty terms: "I salute the hosts of labor. ..." Labor...
A Solo in Tom-Toms is a backward glance at his Colorado boyhood and bachelor days. Youth itself, he explains, is a sort of solo in tom-toms. Once he heard some Sioux Indians beating out a lament for a dead boy: Where has the young buck gone? Tell us...
In Mexico, in 1940, assassins had orders to lay a living ghost. He was Leon Davidovich Trotsky (real name Bronstein), organizer of the Bolshevik coup d'etat which overthrew Russia's democratic Provisional Government (1917), once Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs, Soviet Commissar of War, organizer and leader...
Last week they were haunted by the sight of one sad wreck: the meat industry. They had put on ceilings, passed out subsidies and wage boosts, seized strike-bound plants. And what had happened? Black markets were so prevalent and so much in the open that they had almost begun...
Everywhere, the Jews were strangers, and everywhere they were haunted by the past. Europe was a burial ground that held six million Jewish corpses; the survivors found life among the dead unbearable. They knew that the massacre had not been the work of a handful of Nazis alone, and they...