Word: revolutionist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rough, wonderfully textured weave, unlike anything one is used to brushing against in the modern cinema. The boy's chief tormentor is a trainee manager, an arrogant ninny. The figure Pelle most admires, because his courage contrasts so vividly with Lasse's discouragement, is the farm's resident revolutionist, risking all, losing all (in the film's most shattering passage), by boldly leading a short-lived revolt...
Nader is and was a revolutionist, but like too many of the current crop not quite certain what he wants to destroy and completely at a loss as to what he wants to build . . . Indefatigable in attack, he nevertheless flits from project to project, never completing any particular job and seldom going beyond the flash of publicity which keeps his name current on page one or the TV news...
...caricature by Aline Fruhauf shows BartÓk calmly playing the piano and producing a cacophony. The caption reads: "Bela BartÓk, the mild-mannered revolutionist." Shy and reserved, he knew that his compositions were difficult, and was not hopeful about their appeal. "He never expected the public to like them and play them," recalled Publisher Ralph Hawkes of Boosey & Hawkes. "Apathy and even aversion to his music was to be found everywhere." Dorati told TIME Correspondent Christopher Redman last week: "Even in Hungary, I was sometimes whistled off the podium...