Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Confédération Générale du Travail, have made Communist Co-Secretary General Benoit Frachon the real boss over the Confédération's six million workers. French Communists, through unions directly controlled by Communists, can stop key industries, including metals, light & power, railroads, building, mines, chemicals, textiles, food processing, communications. The constant threat of a general strike permits the Communists (27% of the popular vote) to keep any French Government from adopting foreign or domestic policies contrary to the essential interests of the party-or Russia...
Neither being full-length shows, HDC President Paul Burgraff '48 plans to contrast Odets' powerful social drama with Saroyan's light comedy as an experiment in theater technique. "Waiting for Lefty" is a drama of the labor problem, while "The Ping-Pong Players" is a light one-act love scene...
...Although as a category, Satire and Comedy placed first," Weisgal explained, "the Workshop was faced with the problem of staging its show in Sanders Theater. We felt that it would be foolish to attempt light comedy in the gloomy confines of the Cothic monstrosity that is Sanders. After looking through all of Shaw's works, we came to the conclusion that 'Saint Joan' would be a perfect play for the type of show that is most effective in Sanders...
...idealism is also a corpse kicked around by the Clubs--tolerated in an otherwise vigorous community because of their aversion to the light of day--who lure congenial men into the fundamental mis-conception that race, religion and "family" determine a person's intelligence, integrity or his sociability...
...across the China Sea or in the communes of north China, a nation of 400 millions was slowly dying in the arms of its desperate allies. By analyzing the forces that are now out of control, the authors of this majority opinion on the Chinese crisis have thrown light on past American mistakes. The gravity of these errors is evidenced by the civil strife in China today, an end product of the American ignorance or defiance of the revolutionary surge that sweeps the backward East to violence...