Word: laboredness
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The N.A.A.C.P.'s lifetime is covered almost exactly by that of Roy Wilkins. The grandson of a Mississippi slave, he was born in St. Louis in 1901. His mother died of tuberculosis, and because his father was not able to keep the family together, Roy was reared in St...
To be sure, his Secretary of Labor, Willard Wirtz, has labored patiently to bring about a settlement. Last week he even got the five operating railroad unions to agree, for the first time, to "consider" the "principle of arbitration" as a means of settling key issues. The unions decided that...
During one of the songs in Jennie the actors execute a series of elaborate falls, quickly jumping up again after each maneuver. Unfortunately, the production thuds gracelessly--in the same manner as the dancers--and hardly ever manages to rise above the level of labored tedium.
But we are too conscious of Voskovec's working hard at being this Caesar. Voskovec is not natural; he is labored. Thus much of the "originality" Shaw invested him with vanishes. Voskovec speaks clearly; but clarity is not enough--effortlessness too is required. The vestiges of Voskovec's foreign accent...
White Chief. In 1946, when he was 26, Polish-born Rachman had arrived in Britain virtually penniless and possessing a stateless person's passport. At first, he found postwar Britain a bleak place. His English was poor, and he labored as kitchen helper, insurance agent and black marketeer. He...