Word: movements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raven-haired reporter named Sonia Tomara touring the Near East. Most of last week she spent at Beirut, Syria, after inspecting Turkey and the Balkans. Reporter Tomara last week offered answers to the two key Near East questions. On No. 1 she reported flatly: "The Pan-Arab movement has, for the present at least, given way to a desire to see the Allies win the war. The Arabs understand only too well that the Nazis consider the Semites an inferior race...
No.1 composer of Brazil is hardworking, talkative, frantic Heitor Villa-Lobos. whose bumptious exuberance has turned him into a one-man national musical movement (TIME, Feb. 5). Villa-Lobos wants to give Brazil a folk music. One day he gazed out of his office window in Rio de Janeiro. He gasped. "There," he exclaimed, "was my music, my inspiration. There was the Corcovado, the Sugar Loaf, waiting these millions of years for someone capable of reading and expressing the music of their unique lines. I had found the source of my new, truly Brazilian folklore, without needing...
...House at the University of Nevada's gates, began to befriend Reno's Youth. Last fall he organized among the high-school boys & girls a Supper Club, which met at his house for eats, games, discussions. In no time at all they organized a Youth Movement...
Limited. Author of a history of the Progressive movement (Farewell to Reform, 1932), staff writer on FORTUNE, editor of Harper's monthly book pages, frequent contributor to the New Republic, busy, boyish John Chamberlain reduces the august subject of The State to simple, street-corner terms. The state originated as a "strict racket"; it has progressed by becoming a "limited racket," i.e., a democracy. Government he sees as the broker between competing pressure groups, the New Deal government as a fair attempt to even up the competitors...
...organization of the Crimson Network is the result of a growing movement among college to develop high standards in broadcasting. Started first at Brown four years ago, the "wired-network" has spread to such an extent that during February an Intercollegiate Broadcasting System was founded...