A Central Executive Committee is a governing body with executive power of various parties, governments, or private organizations:
- Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union, the highest legislative body in the Soviet Union in 1922–1938
- Central Executive Committee of Kuomintang, a political party in Taiwan
- Central Executive Committee of People's Action Party, ruling party in Singapore
- All-Russian Central Executive Committee
- All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee
- Central Executive Committee of Soviets (Councils) of Romanian Front, Black See Fleet, and Odessa Oblast, known better as Rumcherod
- Central Executive Committee of Soviets (Councils) of Sibiria, known better as Centrosibir
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“Et in Arcadia ego.
[I too am in Arcadia.]”
—Anonymous, Anonymous.
Tomb inscription, appearing in classical paintings by Guercino and Poussin, among others. The words probably mean that even the most ideal earthly lives are mortal. Arcadia, a mountainous region in the central Peloponnese, Greece, was the rustic abode of Pan, depicted in literature and art as a land of innocence and ease, and was the title of Sir Philip Sidney’s pastoral romance (1590)
“She isn’t harassed. She’s busy, and it’s glamorous to be busy. Indeed, the image of the on- the-go working mother is very like the glamorous image of the busy top executive. The scarcity of the working mother’s time seems like the scarcity of the top executive’s time.... The analogy between the busy working mother and the busy top executive obscures the wage gap between them at work, and their different amounts of backstage support at home.”
—Arlie Hochschild (20th century)
“What a wise and good parent will desire for his own children a nation must desire for all children.”
—Consultative Committee On The Prima. Report of the Consultative Committee on the Primary School (HADOW)