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...have failed in the U.S.: the Populists, the Socialists, the Communists, "Big Bill" Haywood's Wobblies (the I.W.W.), whose theory of progress was to dynamite the social order; or even old Bob LaFollette's 1924 Progressives, the most successful of all but never strong enough nationally to dent the two-party system. They had seen the 1936-40 failure of John Lewis' Labor's Non-Partisan League, of which they themselves were a part. And they remembered the late Sam Gompers, the cigarmaker from London's East Side who ruled...
...serious plays had good notices to overcome. The season produced one provocative play, Lillian Hellman's The Searching Wind, one lively stage pamphlet, Edward Chodorov's Decision. War plays, to make any dent at all, had to abandon straight drama, become exultant paeans to martial youth like Winged Victory, comedies of adventure like Jacobowsky and the Colonel. But the season's only two revivals of the classics came through handsomely: Othello set an alltime Broadway record for Shakespeare, The Cherry Orchard had its longest Broadway...
...Bloody, Bold and Resolute." Editor Dent, the son of a nonconformist preacher, has given the Times's still ponderous, now reformist educational supplement more influence in England than any general educational magazine has in the U.S. He likes to quote Shakespeare: "Be bloody, bold and resolute," and he has a popular cause in Britain's war-born determination that higher education shall not be confined to England's moneyed classes...
...Dent lays about him right & left. He attacks the Labor Party's educational proposals for "timidities and vaguenesses," the Government a.s "pettifogging," headmasters as petty authoritarians, public (British for private) schools for monopolizing key public posts for "old boys," education officials for letting old school ties obscure their vision...
Britain is in no mood, says Dent, to tolerate those who obstruct educational reform. The Manchester Guardian, too, warns M.P.s: ". . . The nation will not easily forgive...