Word: lasky
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the crowded visitors' gallery of the oak-paneled King's Bench courtroom, eager London School of Economics students last week gazed down on the witness box, where their mentor Harold Laski, with a shield of agile dialectics, nonchalantly deflected the barbs of an irate defense counsel...
Although the adroit professor was the complainant, he was quickly put on the defensive by belligerent Sir Patrick Hastings, attorney for the defendant. Laski, former Labor Party chairman, was suing the Newark Advertisers Co., Ltd., publishers of the Nottinghamshire Newark Advertiser, for printing statements that he advocated violent revolution allegedly in speeches during the 1945 election campaign...
...slighted the arts, let bygones be bygones and conducted the overture to Die Meistersinger and the Fantasia from Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet. As the music died away, the blue curtains parted. After a slight (inevitable) delay, the large balding head of Quintus Fabius Maximus' disciple Harold Laski popped through the white backdrop. Laski, peering over the big red carnation in his buttonhole, advanced to the rostrum followed by Prime Minister Attlee, Lord President of the Council Herbert Morrison, Food Minister John Strachey and Education Minister Ellen Wilkinson, all wearing red carnations...
Said Harold Laski in the New Republic: "He is the leader of a team...
...week, in its pleasantly isolated, bucolic little community, Kenyon staged a conference on "The Heritage of the English-Speaking Peoples and Their Responsibility." Long and lovingly planned by Kenyon's President Gordon Keith Chalmers, the conference attracted such varied bigwigs as Senator Robert A. Taft, British Socialist Harold Laski, Cambridge University's Denis Brogan, Poet Robert Frost...