Word: movements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agrarian reform in Mexico. Its author is Dr. Ramon Beteta, Mexico's energetic Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs. He presents the government policy of forced land redistribution, inaugurated in 1915, as a "restorative" development--"giving Mexico back to the Mexicans." Compared with the steady progress of the preceding enclosure movement in Spain as well as in Mexico, the peasant emancipation under Tsar Alexander II is bound to appear in a most favorable light...
...Japanese advance in the Suchow sector with some success. Large Japanese forces were then found to be sweeping around their flank some distance inland, and neutral experts debated whether the 400,000 would be trapped, routed, or might succeed in withdrawing in good order. Although the Japanese flanking movement came mostly down along the Peiping-Hankow Railway, Chinese guerilla troops recaptured last week a 75-mile section of that railway in territory nominally "conquered" by Japan. Gloomy Chinese blew up the longest steel bridge in China to keep Japanese from crossing the Yellow River at Chengchow. In Shansi Province...
...Dukes). Poetic drama by modern writers has been chiefly the plaything of the Little Theatres or the largess of high-minded or highfalutin producers. With a contemporary background poetic drama seems nerveless, artificial, grandiose. But with a historical background it can still, in the right hands, achieve a noble movement...
Like them, he is an expatriate. A poet and critic long before he was a playwright alike, in his long poem The Waste Land (1922) and in his brilliant literary essays, he founded a movement. Becoming ever more conservative and religious-minded, Eliot finally, in 1927, stated his position as "classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and Anglo-Catholic in religion." All his later works are colored by this credo...
Casey Jones (by Robert Ardrey; pro duced by The Group Theatre). The Sceneryless-Theatne Movement (Julius Caesar, The Cradle Will Rock, Our Toun) got a smack on the jaw last Saturday when the curtain went up on Casey Jones. There, covering the whole stage and appearing to race through the night, stretched a life-sized, glinting locomotive. The audience let loose a tornado of applause. But the rest of Casey Jones, instead of roaring straight ahead, backed in and out of rail road yards, got shunted off on sidings...