Word: workers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maneuver. For the moderates, T.U.C. Secretary Sir Vincent Tewson uttered common-sense warnings: "Unilateral disarmament would break up the Western alliance. We won't achieve peace by trying to save our own skins." "There's no love or charity in an H-bomb," replied Garment Worker Secretary J. E. Newton emotionally. "I only want to live in peace." Blurted Cousins: "NATO was originally created as a defense body, but there has been a gradual deterioration of that, till now NATO has become an aggressive body...
...produced the territorial type of community, is being replaced, Toynbee theorizes, by a "mechanical-industrial dispensation," which "resembles the food-gathering and hunting one in a significant particular. In contrast to the cultivator of the soil, the aboriginal Australian food gatherer and the ultramodern immigrant Australian or American industrial worker are like each other in both being rootless ... If we want a label for the now dawning third age of human history, we can call it equally well either 'the age of Diasporas' or 'the age of civilization...
Daughter of a Philadelphia textile worker, Liza started out as a piano prodigy, had her first public concert at the age of eight. One day five years ago, some friends asked her to play at a recording session for a short-lived musical called The Amazing Adele. ''There was a 14-piece orchestra and no one to conduct it. I suddenly found myself playing the piano and conducting the orchestra, and I loved it." For the next year she studied under Vladimir Brailowsky, then made the rounds of the summer tent musicals, absorbing both the inevitable gags...
...Attic, the latest play by Lillian Hellman, deftly explores the character of a weak ne'er-do-well (Jason Robards Jr.): Paddy Chayefsky's The Tenth Man, set in a Mineola, I.I. synagogue, brilliantly and with high humor admixes ancient rite with modern psychology; The Miracle Worker owes its excellence to the superb performances of Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, as they re-create the early childhood of blind deaf-mute Helen Keller; The Best Man sketches characters who are a mile wide and an inch deep, but nonetheless offers swift, glib and enjoyable theatrical journalism about campaigning...
Robards Jr. against three women two old maid sisters and a wife-who need him to need them; The Tenth Man, Alchemist Paddy Chayefsky's murky but potent mixture of out-of-date mysticism and up-to-date neurosis; The Miracle Worker, a tour de force of acting by Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft as the young Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan; and The Best Man, Gore Vidal's cutting caricature of coldblooded politics...