Word: strains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fair or Olympic crowds can appreciate great works of art. The Venus de Milo is being shown in a flashy arena with a moving platform to carry viewers by without strain; the Pietà will be dramatically lighted in a staging designed by Jo Mielziner...
...until summoned by closed-circuit TV when something goes wrong with the machine. People will like their jobs more when the drudgery is removed. Although room at the top may be reserved for a small elite speaking an argot no one else understands, much of the current worker-boss strain may vanish as men relate to machines rather than one another. This has already happened to Air Force men tending the SAGE warning system. Ranks seem to blur, says one officer. "All of the interaction seems to be with the electronic system," he explains...
...strain is, of course, too great. Last year Senegalese Poet-President Leopold Sedar Senghor-once the prince of Paris' black boulevardiers-was obliged to tell the nation that Senegal could unfortunately no longer afford to pay civil servants housing and winter-clothing allowances or finance vacation trips to France. But Senghor has never implemented his decree, and the ridiculous subsidies remain. And he did not even dare suggest a cut in basic pay, for fear of another upheaval like the one he put down 15 months ago, when a coup was led by his old friend, Premier Mahmadou...
Take Colonel Bliss (Eddie Albert), a brilliant staff officer who cracks up under the strain of command. After a few weeks under Peck's care he-come to think of it, Colonel Bliss commits suicide. But take Little Jim (Bobby Darin), a sad sack in a flat funk until Peck shoots him full of s.p. For about ten minutes Bobby lies on a cot making faces like Harpo Marx, and then zowie! he's cured. He flies back to his unit, takes off on a bombing mission, runs into flak and- Well, who cares about the patients when...
...biggest dividend from the stay-out will not be School Committee concessions, or increasing civil rights participation, but the useful strain it puts on the leadership itself. As the demonstrations grow bigger and the objectives become more complex, civil rights groups will have to add trained personnel to their staffs to cope with burgeoning administrative duties. Organizers and fund-raisers will have to be employed on a full-time basis. The Boston movement can begin to build the kind of civil rights "bureaucracy" that has proved so crucial to the sustained, sophisticated struggle in New York. There, part-time civil...