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Iranians turned out in record numbers last week for a parliamentary election that ended 28 months of government by royal decree. The result was a lopsided victory for Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, whose sweeping, courageous reforms have made him the darling of the downtrodden...
Elmer Rice has seen life from a seat somewhere left of center. A vast portion of his autobiography details his fights for the cause of socialism, his championship of the downtrodden. While all this leaves no doubt that Rice, at 70, is nobody's man but his own, Minority Report seems to have been put together by a civil rights pamphleteer rather than by a playwright: in the first 80 pages there are but two lines of directly quoted conversation...
...most impressive endorsement came last week from the prestigious Economist, which argued that criticisms of his quick temper and impatience with technical detail "could also have been levied against Winston Churchill." Unlike Gaitskell, whose political philosophy was based on an essentially out-of-date view of an "insular and downtrodden England," argued the weekly, Brown's socialism is that "of an age when intelligent thrusters have learned to look forward in opportunity...
Future Discovered. Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell joined the Labor Party from no sense of downtrodden necessity. Son of a British civil servant in India, he was educated at Winchester and Oxford's New College, did not have his smoldering sense of social justice fully kindled until the general strike of 1926. To an aunt who offered to subsidize an army career, he replied: "My future belongs to the working class." After graduation from Oxford, Gaitskell lectured among coal miners in depressed areas, became an economics don at London University. During the war, he joined the civil service...
...Jewish ethics and mysticism at Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary, writes in The Prophets (Harper & Row; $6) that if those peculiar ancients claimed to speak for God himself, their message is indeed worthy of the Creator. For they preached the dignity of the world's poor and downtrodden, and warned unjust men that God himself cared about what happened on earth...