Word: work
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Neither did the enthusiasm created by songs inspire the audience to work for disarmament. As a device for solidifying a group music, particularly folk music, is matchless. But it is best used for sustaining a mood of focussed activism; rarely, if ever, can music by itself ignite such a mood. On picket lines, song kept emotions taut; but hatred of management--and desire to unionize--was present long before the strikers learned their union songs...
Commitment to disarmament means enormous expenditure of intellectual energy, a sustained attempt to understand the ever-spiralling problem and piece together solutions. It means also a dedication to persuasion, to convincing friends and strangers that they must face the horrors of the arms race and themselves work for disarmament...
Plank agreed with Sohn, pointing out that the unocmmitted nations will "do their utmost" to keep East-West conflicts out of the General Assembly in order to work on the "mammoth array of problems which they face...
...Edwards does a fine job on scenery and lighting, and Alexander Mackendrick's directing seems adequate, although he must do something with the unfortunate Miss Holly and iron out the Prologue. But playwright Joseph has a lot of work...
...With a kind of empirical intuition," the thinkers of the ancient world anticipated many of the most modern discoveries in psychology, Aldous Huxley observed tonight. In the first of his seven scheduled lectures on "What a Piece of Work Is a Man," the novelist discussed "Ancient Views of Human Nature" before an estimated 1,500 people at M.I.T.'s Kresge Auditorium...