Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charging into an operating steel factory, the Chairman missed not a thing, questioned one worker about his wages ($85-$90 a week), hefted tools, examined huge machines, freely offered his comments. When a guide showed him a machine and said, "I'm sure that you have better ones in your country," the New Nikita replied without a trace of rancor: "Don't be so sure. We have better ones; we have the same kind-we even have worse. I don't say that all you have is bad and all we have is good. We can learn...
...working class does have the juridical right to strike.*Does the worker have the right to exercise the right to strike? Yes. Have there been strikes since the October Revolution? Yes, I spoke at some of the strike meetings. Are there strikes now? No. Because workers and unions and the government have one thought-because in what other country would the government announce that wages would be raised and the working day reduced without pressure? In capitalist countries they would need to fight for this...
Reuther: The chairman himself exposed, in his exposure of Stalin's crimes, the cult and power of an individual. How could the worker in that period get justice if he could not strike or publicly protest...
...these are, admittedly, quibbles. The Miracle Worker is a beautiful production, in every way worthy of its remarkable subject. It should not be missed...
...Miracle Worker is reminiscent of another play about a famous recovery from handicap, Dore Schary's Sunrise at Campobello. Both have the advantage of a ready-made, well-known story, of ready-made audience sympathy. But Gibson's task is a far more demanding one: while Schary could work with the breezy personality of the adult F.D.R., Gibson has as his heroine a six-year-old girl who cannot speak a word. There is, of course, the wonderful Annie, beautifully played by Miss Bancroft, but Helen remains the central figure, an unusual and tremendously difficult character...