Word: revolutionists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...warning to some gentleman who had contemplated inviting Mr. Boyd to dinner, has a decidedly complimentary turn, and is reproduced on the dust-jacket of this 490-page novel of the American Revolution concerning the adventures of John Fraser : how his father was a Tory, his lady a revolutionist ; how he, torn between two personal voices and not particularly concerned with the wider issues of his country's dilemma, went to England, France, Scotland, looking for a fence to sit on ; how he heard men declaim in taverns and ordinaries, breaking their clay pipes with the passion of their...
...radicalism will be made to howl again across the barren steppes of the American desert. The generation at school will learn by rote that the penalty of thinking further or faster than their sainted ancestors is "death, destruction, poverty, starvation, disease, and anarchy." George Washington, himself a radical and revolutionist, will be summoned from his grave to defend the constitutional guarantees of "life, liberty, justice, security, and opportunity." The American Legion, that distinguished organ of intellectuality, and toleration, will furnish speakers ad libitum for mass meetings...
Isadora Duncan, dancer and political revolutionist, came by air from Russia to Berlin, kept an audience waiting half an hour, apologized for orchestra, director, lack of rehearsal, one thing and another, danced Tchaikovsky Pathétique. After the performance, she said her days of solo dancing were over. Everyone agreed. Now she is going to undertake to pass on her torch. She will open a school in Berlin for children - children of the masses only. She expects about 500 pupils. Some 22 years ago, Miss Duncan first danced in Berlin. The Kaiser did not understand her art. She went...
Professor Sprague's objections to socialism as a subject for debate are an interesting illustration of the change in thought since the early nineteenth century. Even fifty years ago there was no doubt in the public mind as to the definition of a socialist--a revolutionist and a social renegade. At that time he was as easily recognized by his objections to the status quo as by his proposed methods of reaching Utopia. Now it is somewhat difficult to find even a "blood-sucking capitalist" to agree that all's right in the world. The socialist's ideal has expanded...
...theories will be promulgated and many more volumes will be writen. He is, and will be, seen as a narrow-minded demagogue as well as an extraordinary leader and statesman; as a fiend incarnate as well as a glorious martyr. But a very faithful, impartial portait of the great revolutionist may be found in Mr. Levine's biography...