Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foreign Ministers' Deputies, laboring in London over German and Austrian peace treaty drafts, last week had more brackets than boiler plate on their hands. "Boiler plate" (a U.S. newspaper term for ready-cast features) was how the U.S. staff referred to non-controversial provisions which the deputies simply lifted from the finished satellite treaties. "It's still in brackets" was the phrase used whenever the deputies indicated their disagreement by penciling brackets around a disputed passage...
...irony was not lost on the Parliament's few true democrats. The essence of a democratic popular election is a secret ballot, but most of the members of this Parliament had been chosen in a terror-ridden election in which most voters had cast open ballots in plain view of the Government's poll watchers (TIME, Jan. 27). On the other hand, democratic practice usually calls for an open vote by elected representatives, so that their constituents can check up on them. Poland's rulers have just reversed Western democratic procedure...
...cast actually manages to seem Scottish. From David Brooks, who sang "Evalina" in "Bloomer Girl," through Lidija Franklin and Virginia Bosler, two talented dancers in the best DeMille tradition, down to all the various people who hang around in the mob scenes, the show smacks of authenticity, an effect which is boosted by David Ffolkes' costumes. It is, in fact, this quality that is the show's outstanding virtue. It's a sort of "Okla homa!" set in Scotland...
Around himself in this production Gielgud has built a competent but not always sparkling supporting cast. In what is really the play's most significant role, that of lady Bracknell, Margaret Rutherford tries to create her own interpretation one of saga city rather than more overwhelming personality but she does not seem able to escape completely the characterization by Edith Evans, made famous in London and on records, and she does not, therefore, entirely succeed...
...return of approximately 2100 favorable votes out of about 2400 cast, representing a majority of the 4100 undergraduate residents but not of the 5400 total enrollment, caused two alternatives of the Council's final action to be discussed...