Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks before the National Committee meeting, some of the Southerners had had bigger game in mind than Camille Gravel: Chairman Butler, who for months had been daring them to get out of the party if they could not line up with national Democratic policy on civil rights. But in the elections' aftermath, with liberals more clearly in party control than at any time in the last decade, and with a smashing victory on the record, most realistic Southern committee members had given up any hope of deposing Butler. In the event, they got their faces rubbed in the ashes...
...also producer, the show moves rapidly and without any awkward pauses at all. This is no small accomplishment because there are some stretches in the script devoid of "wit," and, because the character are so transparent, there is little to hold interest in these long stretches. Quickly coming to mind, for instance, is a drunk scene in the second act, very lengthy indeed, that served only to aggravate the already parched throats of those in the crowd...
...course any clod can be a crusader, but Osborne is no literary Peter the Hermit. His fervor is complemented by a first-rate independent mind. For all the obvious intensity with which he holds his beliefs, he has no all-embracing doctrine that makes his views on every question predictable, and that serves him as a fetter as well as a crutch. He is a confirmed socialist, but he has acknowledged that "Socialism is an experimental idea, not a dogma." (I quote from a published symposium entitled Declaration, which contains essays by Osborne and Kenneth Tynan which are worth reading...
...artist, an actor-playwright to be specific--and a thorough second-rater. Like Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger, he is suffering from "the pain of being alive," and it stings him into delivering tirades, presumably on the authors' behalf, concerning such matters as religion, the middle-class mind, and the relationship of life to art. These tirades are neither so long, so frequent, nor so good as Jimmy Porter's similar tirades, but they are well...
...truth, it is also acting as a social escalator, helping the unsocialized ambitions. Needless to say, neither function can survive alone. The machine which focusses exclusively on making leaders will have an intellectually moribund faculty which cannot set the right example for the students. Only when the academic mind is operating at full efficiency can it make its viewers love the smell of success better than the smell of a TV dinner...