Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...People All Around is written in an old-fashioned protest-play form that seems utterly void of impact in the 1960's. Moments bear a striking resemblance to Waiting for Lefty. The play as a whole comes most definitely from a genre that pervaded the Odets era; Sklar's earlier titles, in fact, include works like Peace on Earth (1933), Stevedore (1934), and Life and Death of an American (1939), the final production of the Federal Theatre Project. Even the title And People All Around is revealing of the author's toward the "serious theatre" he sees this country lacking...
...whites and deepening the Negro's sense of separateness, the black-power movement may serve to increase Negro frustrations rather than relieve them. It has already begun to alienate whites, who bridle at the exclusionary connotations of black power; last week Author Lillian Smith (Strange Fruit) resigned in protest from CORE, whose membership was 50% white only five years ago. Black power is certainly submerging the bread-and-butter issues that matter deeply to aspiring Negroes. Perhaps most tragic of all, it turned last week into an attack on the Negro middle class, which has borne most...
Rebuff for Restraint. Wilson also had troubles inside the Labor Party. Minister of Technology Frank Cousins (see THE WORLD), a dedicated, emotional trade union leader, resigned in protest against Wilson's aim of holding down wage increases. The dispute hardly bolstered confidence in the British econ omy or the value of the pound...
Shortly after the Hanoi-Haiphong bombings, a corner of the Adams-for-Senate office in Boston debated whether or not their candidate should spearhead a sit-in at the Federal Building to protest the new escalation...
...past three decades, the U.S. theater has dashed from the barricade to the bedroom, from a flirtation with Marx to an infatuation with Freud. The social-protest school, including Clifford Odets, Irwin Shaw and Lillian Hellman, recessed when it lost its villain. The Depression took its critics with...