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Officially, Laski is chairman of the Labor Party's National Executive Committee (a rotating position). He has been close to Prime Minister "Clem" Attlee (whom Laski considers too conservative), has prestige with Labor's rank & file (who are proud of their "posh" professor), has even greater influence on Britain's leftist intellectuals. But many Labor Party members dislike Laski for his "intellectual snobbishness," his impatience with trade-union "bread & butter questions" of today, his preoccupation with the Marxist power problems of tomorrow...
...best-selling poem of that title - which, for all its sincerity, can be most kindly described as lap-doggerel. The picture, which is a 126-minute apostrophe to Beau Geste Britons and a Beau Geste Britain, may be most kindly described as somewhat pish and more than a little posh. It may well give genuine admirers of good cinema and credible Englishmen the jimjams...
...article ex-Buster Arnold judicially recorded his opinion that labor has become a national headache, that it is perhaps more unpopular in the slit trenches of World War II than in the posh clubs of professional New Deal haters, and that the great body of public approval essential for effective labor support is crumbling all along the line...
...them. ... All He* had to do was sling that jack [into store windows]. Sling it hard and sling it often and pick up His money. Then He could dress His self proper and get a car for His self, and look the part, so as no bride, posh or not, would scream if he tried to chat...
...Grillon, Mexico City's ultra-posh nightclub, 300 poets and writers of every political stripe gathered to meet Manuel Avila Camacho over absinthe cocktails, lobster a la Newburg and a succulent melee of chicken, turkey and duck washed down with rare wines. Mexico's querulous intellectuals were being reconciled; the bile of the inkpot was being washed away in the blood of the vine. At the same time they were making the acquaintance, firsthand, of the President who, succeeding to the far-Left regime of Lazaro Cardenas, had led Mexico back to the middle of the road...