Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...figure, his face bereft of its usual suggestion of tart strength, his hands poked disconsolately into the pockets of his raincoat. His own career as party leader was now in jeopardy. This was the first time since 1931 that Labor had failed to add to its popular vote in an election. "Voting is like the waves on the beach," Attlee philosophized to a TIME correspondent. "They come higher and higher and then there's one that doesn't come as high-but then it is usually followed by one that comes up even higher still." But Clem Attlee...
...basic fact of the election was that Labor failed to deliver its vote. In 1951, when losing to Churchill, Labor actually got a bigger popular vote. This year 1,842,889 fewer voters went to the polls, and three-fourths of the absentees, according to the experts, were people who usually vote Socialist. Even so, Labor got 46.3% of the less than 27,000,000 votes. It represents a strong sentiment in the nation, but it lacks leadership, and its leadership lacks a program. Cockney Herbert Morrison, 67, a cheerful and clever but not very profound man, is in line...
...Victory. The Conservatives, for all their rejoicing, saw the significance beneath the statistics. They had had just about everything on their side-prosperity, the neatly timed Big Four talks, a well-financed party machine, popular leaders, and the good fortune to be in office during, in the words of the London Economist, "one of those rare periods of British history when it has been easier to govern than to oppose." Yet the voting swing to the Conservative Party was less than 2%. The Tories' white-haired campaign manager, avuncular old Lord Woolton, acknowledged that "the low poll...
...British election, made it a table for four: France's Faure, Britain's Eden, President Eisenhower and some still unnamed Russian, presumably Premier Bulganin. The time and place of the meeting are still open questions. The Kremlin favors Vienna, where it might expect to make popular capital out of its concessions on the Austrian State Treaty; the West prefers Lausanne in neutral Switzerland, between July...
...concentrating on literal settings and social messages, Ibsen's and Chekhov's disciples have slighted theme, plot, character development and language-the things that gave the theater popular appeal-and have produced a theater suffering from "muscular atrophy" and conditioned by the idea that the playwright, and not his audience, knows what makes good drama. ("The playwright no longer has to die to reach Parnassus. He starts out there...