Word: classe
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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...
With prosperity rising and class lines blurring, the old socialist slogans are becoming bogeys, rather than attractions. Nationalization is now an electoral liability even among Laborite voters. Thus last Thursday, Ian Mikardo, vice-Chairman of the Labor Party and leader of the party left, lost his industrial seat to a Conservative. Where the promise of equality attracted votes before, the offer of opportunity is winning them...
...Labour Party, shaken by its fourth decline in as many elections, must now resolve its feuds and discover a new appeal to England's decreasingly class-conscious electorate. Jo Grimmond's reviving Liberals, if they are to regain a really challenging role in British politics, now have the chance to demonstrate that they are a party of principles, and not merely a vehicle of dissatisfaction...
...Communists spent well over $100 million this past summer in their global attempt to create, and win, a new social class of "Youth." The World Youth Festival did not succeed in this, however, for as a propaganda instrument it was blunted by the independent efforts of Western student groups, and in particular by American participants working within the Festival. But the Soviet did not fail with all of the 20,000 "youth" who arrived in Vienna for 10 days of rallies, cultural events, slogans, and seminars...
With this consciously created New Class the Russians are eager to identify, and there are pretentious possibilities in their hope for the fast-stepping of the youth vanguard ("At the Revolution, I will be there"). It is difficult to think of a western parallel for this collective identification, unless it would be the unplanned social cast of the "teenager", given group status by popular song, and whose wayward extremes think they are fulfilling a public image "Get your knife, Freddy...