Word: steward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world of Massachusetts politics in the late 1950's and early 60's. In the 30's and 40's, Massachusetts politics were squalid, sordid, and petty--primarily used as path for personal advancement, much like politics in any other state. But Catholicism with its doctrine of the resourceful steward ("to whom much is given, much is expected") and Puritanism with its sense of mission (John Winthrop's words when founding Boston, "We shall be as a city upon a hill," are plastered all over public buildings) met in the minds of some of the Boston Irish. It was this...
...wave of his Luger: "Vorwärts!" But the troops have been staring at their watches, too. Instead of charging, they march off-out of step-toward the canteen. "It's coffee-break time," says the squad leader to the Oberleutnant. "Take it up with the shop steward...
...comedy is set in plague-ridden London where a gentleman has fled the city and left his house in the care of his steward, Face (Robert Symonds). False Face teams up with a charlatan of alchemy named Subtle (O'Sullivan) and a trollop, Dol Common (Nancy Marchand). This trio of con artists gull the gullible - clerks, widows, fortune hunters such as Sir Epicure Mammon (George Voskovec), and hypocritical Puritans. As written by Jonson, the play has the shapely precision of a ballet, wittily danced to the themes of vanity, greed, cunning, lust and fraud. As directed by Jules Irving...
Married. Mandy Rice-Davies, 21, baby-faced second lead to Star Christine Keeler in Britain's 1963 Profumo scan dals; and Rafael Shaul, 26, an Israeli airline steward; in London...
...freeze wages and prices but, ironically enough for a Labor government, to create some unemployment. Already the first layoffs from firms cutting back production have begun. The British workingman's reaction is predictable. "It's a shock this comes from a Labor government," says Senior Shop Steward John Recordon of London's Palmer Aero Products. "I can't see any blame for the worker in all this, but now they're going to freeze wages. This talk about workin' harder is a myth. By and large we do our best." Wilson's appeal...