Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gibson, an unknown actress named Anne Bancroft, a television producer named Fred Coe and a director named Arthur Penn reached Broadway with a two-character play, Two for the Seesaw. It was such a solid hit that it is still running today. This team's second effort, The Miracle Worker, came to the Wilbur Theatre in Boston Tuesday night. It is a gripping, magnificently performed piece of stagecraft, and it should have no difficulty in duplicating and surpassing the success of Seesaw...
...Miracle Worker tells in remarkably unmawkish fashion the story of the childhood of Helen Keller. Miss Keller, left blind and deaf in infancy by a near-fatal illness, is deservedly one of the marvels of our age, a woman who despite her handicaps has "seen" and done more than many dream of. The "miracle worker" who awakened young Helen Keller to the world around her, who taught her to "talk," to "see," and to "hear" was Annie Sullivan, a Boston Irish girl, once blind herself...
Speaking for the Holy Office, Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzardo agreed that the church must try to recapture the French workers' allegiance (although he noted stiffly that men who received the "sacred and indelible mark of baptism" could not be considered totally "de-Christianized"). But, continued Pizzardo, "it is above all through words that the priest must testify, and not by manual labor accomplished among workers as if he were one of them . . . Work in factories or shops is incompatible with a priest's life and aims." Even if a worker-priest could find time to say Mass and perform...
Upside Down? In place of the worker-priests, the Holy Office recommended the formation of secular institutes composed of priests and laymen. Under the instruction and guidance of the priests, said the letter, the lay apostles could carry on the mission in the factories...
...arrangements were pure Mao dynasty. All 19 excursionists were carefully chosen on the basis of docility: reporters from Pravda, Tass, Poland's Trybuna Ludu, North Korean news agencies, Britain's Red Sheep Alan Winnington (the London Daily Worker), along with Author Anna Louise Strong, doyenne of U.S. Red-liners, who was accused by the Kremlin in 1949 of working against Communism-an error for which Moscow later abjectly apologized. (For the Tibetan junket an oxygen tent was taken along for 74-year-old Journalist Strong, but the heady political climate of captive Tibet made it unnecessary...