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(Encyclopedia) Communist party, in the United States, political party that espoused the Marxist-Leninist principles of communism.
In 1945, Browder's policy was attacked as being one of the “right deviationism,�...
(Encyclopedia) Godard, Jean-Luc zhäN-lük gôdärˈ [key], 1930–, French film director and scriptwriter, b. Paris. He wrote criticism for a number of Parisian cinema journals in the early 1950s before embarking o...
(Encyclopedia) Dulles, John Foster dŭlˈəs [key], 1888–1959, U.S. secretary of state (1953–59), b. Washington, D.C.; brother of Allen Dulles, grandson of John Watson Foster, secretary of state under President ...
(Encyclopedia) communistic settlements, communities practicing common ownership of goods. Communistic settlements were known in ancient and medieval times, but the flowering of such groups occurred in the 19th cent....
(Encyclopedia) cubism, art movement, primarily in painting, originating in Paris c.1907.
In painting the several sources of cubist inspiration included the later work of Cézanne; the geometric forms and compresse...
(Encyclopedia) sin, in religion, unethical act. The term implies disobedience to a personal God, as in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and is not used so often in systems such as Buddhism where there is no persona...
(Encyclopedia) Nussbaum, Martha C.,
1947–, American philosopher, b. New York City, Ph.D. Harvard
University, 1975. The Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor o...
(Encyclopedia) menstruation, periodic flow of blood and cells from the lining of the uterus in humans and most other primates, occurring about every 28 days in women. Menstruation commences at puberty (usually betwe...
(Encyclopedia) Commonwealth of Nations, voluntary association of Great Britain and its dependencies, certain former British dependencies that are now sovereign states and their dependencies, and the associated state...
(Encyclopedia) cooperative movement, series of organized activities that began in the 19th cent. in Great Britain and later spread to most countries of the world, whereby people organize themselves around a common g...