Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basic issue: while the cost of living has risen 40% in three years, wages have gone up only about half that much. The rank and file is tired of the cozy old system whereby union leaders cooperate with the government and in turn get cushy government jobs. Sample: Labor Confederation Chief Fidel Velázquez is also a Senator. Even if López Mateos' stern measures win this round, the show of worker loyalty behind Vallejo was a signal of more labor turmoil ahead...
...Incredible" Job. The Christian Century's drama critic, the Rev. Tom F. Driver, who also teaches Practical Theology at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, criticized MacLeish for making his play a non sequitur by jumping down from the theological discussion between God and Satan to dwell upon J.B.'s purely human sufferings...
...later issue of the Century, Samuel Terrien, professor of Old Testament at Union, maintained that MacLeish's J.B. is an entirely different character from Job. The Bible's Job "shouts his pride, shrieks his blasphemy, and fights with a God who eludes his attacks." By comparison, Terrien finds MacLeish's J.B. "emasculated." He is merely "the diseased victim of fate, who hardly, if ever at all, rises above the level of intellectual stupor and spiritual impassivity...
Terrien's and Driver's academic boss, President Henry P. Van Dusen of Union Theological Seminary, took them both to task in the Christian Century for not taking into consideration the fact that the Book of Job is not one book but two-a poem with a prose introduction and conclusion on a much lower level. Since the picture of Job is not consistent in the first place, says Van Dusen, Dr. Terrien's complaint that J.B. is not faithful to the Book of Job is irrelevant. Instead of "slavish imitation" of the Biblical Job, "Mr. MacLeish...
Died. Gleb Maksimilianovich Krzhizhanovsky, 87, oldest Bolshevist revolutionary, who shared with Lenin a 17-month prison term that began in 1895, later became a director of the Soviet Union's first Five-Year Plan, was eulogized in 1957 by the Current Digest of the Soviet Press as "one of the founders of the State Commission for Electrification of Russia . . . founder of the scientific school of Soviet power engineering, a dreamer and poet...