Word: steward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Right, Jack. Sellers again- as union shop steward in a cracking good sociopolitical satire...
...Right, Jack. Sellers again-as a union shop steward in a cracking good socio-political satire...
Sellers' part is wittily written and redoubtably well played. He is the union's shop steward, a shabby individual who somehow manages to look like a fanatical potato. He has an aggressive proletarian pallor, beady eyes and an eagerly struggling mustache. He will make a speech at the drop of an aitch, and shows a genivs for tautology ("the existing agreement that exists") and abecedarianism ("I have no hesitation in delineating it as barefaced provocative of the workers...
...Sellers' character is no caricature. Many gifted mimics imagine that what they can imitate they have understood, but Sellers goes farther than that. His shop steward is the little man with the big dream, and he sees that if there is humor, there is also "enormous sadness" in the grubby little doctrine monger's vision of a workers' paradise somewhere beyond the Vistula: "All them cornfields and ballet in the evening...