Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every period of sweeping change, life outruns its popular interpreters. Happenings come too fast; old familiar actors on the stage of history are whisked away and disappear; newcomers crowd in, get half through their opening lines and vanish with a dull thud and a gurgle...
...trouble started in the "pot room" (final stage of aluminum reduction). Irked by the sweltering heat and the inaction of the company and the National Catholic Syndicate of Aluminum Workers on requested wage increases, 300 huskies quit work and set up a shout for "a dollar an hour." They tossed out protesting "front-office" workers, told company police to go chase themselves. In violation of Canada's labor-conciliation law they staged a sit-down in the pot room, thereby capturing a plant surrounded by anti-aircraft batteries, as carefully guarded against outside attack as any in North America...
...bandersnatch entrance of Harpo, minus his red fright-wig but plus a violent shirt with enormous purple and red flowers. Wildly ogling the indulgent audience, he plucked all the Harpo strings, blew bubble gum, enjoyed himself no end. Last time he had spoken out loud on the stage was 25 years ago in a Texas tank town. The long silence had not improved his manners. Said he, stealing a line from the play's catty hero: "I may vomit...
...Teachers said they had cured pupils of poor reading, incoherent writing, stage fright, stuttering...
...eloquent foreword British Laborite (pottery-maker and single taxer) Wedgwood also gives some shrewd reasons why he and Columbia University's Allan Nevins thought such an anthology worth compiling: "Though all my Labour colleagues regard Socialism as merely a stage on the road to that economic freedom which is our common goal, yet dependence on the State ever grows. A new master replaces the old masters. The mountain top is obscured, and those who have no vision tend to become willing cogs in the new bureaucratic machine. This machine . . . becomes a god whom it is blasphemy to criticize...