Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...management attack on work rules gave a propaganda opening on the other side for Steelworkers President Dave McDonald, who raised a cry that the bosses were trying to take away the coffee break and regulate trips to the men's room. Steelworkers, who had been grumbling 'that no wage increase was worth a strike because it was sure to be canceled out by price upcreep, rallied to the union's charges that management wants to put the workers "at the mercy of every plant supervisor...
...budgetmaking amounted to no more than signing a 13-line document prepared in Congress. Thomas Jefferson, whose chores were not much heavier, called the presidency "splendid misery." Yet today, in a typical year, Dwight Eisenhower may sign 750 bills, send 40,000 promotions and appointments to Congress, and take the responsibility for a budget that fills 1,100 small-print pages. Not only is he expected to lead Western diplomacy, guide the nation's domestic affairs and entertain ceremoniously, but he must perform such assorted functions as approving the U.S. Navy Band's concert tours, dealing with dismissals...
...President with day-to-day affairs, they would be more important than the Vice President, who is constitutionally required only to preside over the Senate. Where assistants now shield Ike through persuasion or toughness, the. new assistants-at least in theory-would do it by having authority to take over some of his duties...
...romantic man, a soft and chivalrous idealizer of woman, is not a completely successful character; as usual when Shaw attempts this type, the result here is a second-rate Shelly. Ellis Rabb makes the part into a delicate caricature of delicacy, amusingly undermining any possibility of our trying to take poor Octavius seriously--which may be just as well. Tom Martin is good as the new Leporello; Cavada Humphrey and Robert Rees Evans are adequate but labored as the heroine and hero of a romantic subplot...
...them with considerable skill on a graceless set by William D. Roberts. The hell scene in the Kilty production drags a bit, as it never does in the considerably-longer recorded version; probably it simply needs greater virtuosity than this cast could bring to it. Mr. Kilty does not take the play as seriously as he might, and the result is a rather superficial performance. But it is done with flamboyance and zest, and if the result is far from definitive, it is still delightful...