Word: movements
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Georgia (33): A Dixiecrat movement to back Favorite Son Herman Talmadge is under way, but the unit rule should carry the state for Johnson...
...least, the government's maneuver has failed. One by one, Kenya's African leaders denounced the Corfield report as a rehash of "European prejudices." In the week's prize example of nationalism gone berserk, Kenya Legislator S. A. Ayodo declared that when the Mau Mau movement is properly appraised, it will rank in history with the "French Revolution or the War of American Independence...
...Gehot (1756-18??) was a Belgian-born composer and violinist who made his living fiddling at the City Concerts in Philadelphia. Strongly addicted to program music, he celebrated his departure for America when in his 30s by writing a twelve-part overture describing the voyage and including such detailed movement headings as "Going on board, and pleasure at recollecting the encouragement [the traveller] hopes to meet with in a land where merit is sure to gain reward." Gehot is represented in the series by his Quartetto in D Major, a pleasant if rather bland work with a folksy, hey-nonny...
NEGRO LABOR COUNCIL was organized in Detroit by A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, to represent 1.5 million Negroes in U.S. unions. Council will fight inside A.F.L.-C.I.O. to end segregation and discrimination in labor movement...
...from merely accepting stage artifices, they glory in them and glorify them. The result is often a triumph of manner. The actor does not lose himself in the part; he arrays himself in it. Sometimes the action approaches the formal repose of sculpture, at other times the formal movement of ballet. Perhaps the Kabuki method itself tends toward theatrical rather than dramatic rewards...