Word: upliftment
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...into the hands of talented Actor Jean-Louis Barrault. Nobel Prizewinner Albert Camus got his own theater too. But although De Gaulle and his wife are people of austere and devout feelings, even Malraux's critics concede that Malraux has not tried to censor sex or demand uplift...
...According to the script, Perry always wins, and he does not need legal knowledge so much as a passion for digging up evidence and that scowling aggressive courtroom demeanor that eventually forces a confession on the witness stand. Like Gardner, Burr feels that the show is brightened with moral uplift-the murders are almost always offstage and the girls are not overly shady Perry's legman is Paul Drake, a suave, civilized type played by Bill Hopper, Columnist Hedda Hopper's son. District attorneys across the country are beginning to cry havoc: it just does not seem right...
Last week the problem in New York City was attacked on two fronts: an angry report by the American Jewish Congress on de facto segregated schools, an exciting new effort by the city's board of education to uplift such schools...
Seven Commandments. Scholarly Konosuke Matsushita combines the inventiveness of an Edison with the uplift of an evangelist. In the 32 Matsushita factories that turn out his "National" products, the 12,150 employees all start the day by lining up and reciting the Seven Commandments of Matsushita. They range from "Be just, cheerful, correct and broadminded" to sharp reminders to "improve yourself through hard work" and exhortations to appreciate employee benefits, e.g., "Be grateful and repay kindness." Recitation over, employees break into a martial company song, The Song of National, that urges them: "For the building of the new Japan, unite...
Lest the audience mistake all this for pure uplift propaganda, the librettists give a dutiful nod to the flaws that can be found even in the Soviet soul. A comedy trio of class conscious careerists who are more interested in self-advancement than the good of the group are exposed and punished. A bourgeois, bureaucratic superintendent is lampooned in the hassle that arises from the assigning of apartments. But through it all, the hero and the heroine work at their interior decoration and wait patiently for the fruits of love and Marxism...