Word: labouring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Love's Labour's Lost (by William Shakespeare) opened the season at Manhattan's City Center with a gay splash. The play is minor and rather poky Shakespeare, last seen on Broadway in the 1890s; but the present revival, if a dubious choice, takes a daring form. Love's Labour is offered as an elegant Edwardian frolic, half satiric comedy, half court masque. Alexander Pope was told of his translation of the Iliad: "A very pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer." Perhaps the City Center should not call this Shakespeare; perhaps...
Janner last year was president of the Cambridge Union, a mock Parliament designed to give students experience in speaking and in the forms of English polities. In the Union he represented Labour, while Lloyd was a Conservative...
...Union is open to all students who pay its nominal membership fee. A new member must remain a political independent for his first term in the organization, but after that he joins one of the PU's political parties--at present the Conservative, the Labour, and the Third Force. The first two parties have been mainstays of the PU since its inception in 1936, but the Third Force is a recent addition to the lineup, having been formed by a coalition of the disbanned Liberal party and right-wing Taft Conservatives. Any group which can muster 15 percent or more...
...Labour Party, of which Weinberg was a member until he became president and had to abandon any party affiliation, now is the smallest of the three parties. It includes everything from Fair Deal Democrats to militant Progressives, like Weinberg himself. In pre-war days the party had several Communist members, but today there are none--at least openly. A neo-fascist bloc also is supposed to have flourished within the Conservative party prior to 1941, but all traces of that too have vanished
...recalled a fragment of knowledge picked up from his studies. There was a famous man in 1391 who wrote about astronomy. The same man had a friend at Merton whom he called "The Philosophical Strode." Could it be that the author of MS. 75-a "lewde compilator of the labour of old astrologiens"-was Geoffrey Chaucer himself...