Word: bringing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...order to bring off an Embarrassment Drama, its actors must be perfect masters of tenement realism, capable of perfectly shaping quiet moments as well as completely uninhibited crises. They need to maintain an appearance of complete fidelity to the surface of lower-middle and working class life. (A life-sized statue of Lloyd Warner will be awarded to anyone who can tell the lower-middle from the working class without a scorecard.) In this second offering of the pre-season season at the Charles Playhouse (the season opens later this month), a group of good actors, capable of many fine...
...perhaps the greatest Tory asset was Harold Macmillan himself and the general post war image of his party which he has helped to create in the public mind. This is the image of a united, progressive, responsible party which can maintain Britain's role abroad and bring prosperity without state control at home. By retaining much nationalization and by extending most of the welfare state the Conservatives have stolen many of Labor's robes. By denationalizing less suitable industries and by reducing taxes and state controls, they have retained their traditional right-wing support...
...able to develop the policies which have brought England unprecedented prosperity domestically and a new leadership in the cold war abroad. If the Tories can avoid the temptations which such a strong majority offers, and not overlook such domestic considerations as localized unemployment and low pensions, they could bring five years of progressive domestic government. Similarly, if they are sufficiently flexible to reconsider the problems of British Africa and of the challenge of a united continental Europe, Macmillan's government could give England a renewed position in the world...
...meet such opposition first hand is shocking, and yet it was brought even into the meetings. The Festival Chairman, French Communist Jean Garcia, shoved anti-Communist Malcolm Rivkin from the table Rivkin was standing on to bring the meeting under control. The Festival organizers also used a list of technical obstructions that would look as detailed as a railway timetable if printed...
...final election was less important than the message the efforts to bring it about provided to other Festival delegates, and to outside sources reached through television and press. In conclusion, the Communists freely use two contrasting techniques in negotiation to achieve their goal. On one side they will be so surly and unreasonable that the least unfreezing may look like a concession. As one negotiating member burbled after nearly a week of argument, "Garcia was so nice to us today. He even gave me a Chinese cigarette--it really was mild...