Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think integratin' niggers is like mixin' paint. You just pour in two pots and stir long enough and it comes out another color. And you can't understand why we'd object to the color of a man's skin, so you think we're all hypocrites. You act like you thought if you just talked long enough, and maybe sent some paratroopers to help talk, eventually we'd start getting' along with the niggers. You don't understand there's a lot more to begin' a nigger than just havin' dark skin...
...fast opening chorus, the romantic male lead meets and wins the romantic female lead, all to the tune of a ballad. Then comes the comic subplot, generally introduced by means of a specialty number. After that, the plot takes over for a while, and by the time the first-act curtain falls, the lovers are parted. The second act, which also opens with a chorus number, is shorter and more sketchy than the first. All that is necessary now is to get the lovers back together again...
...campaign--though not for political motives. It saw in the action of the majority members of the school committee a serious threat to the already weak Cambridge school system, and spurred on the other civic groups that were seeking to stop the appointments. The CCA itself was moved to act by the two school committeemen whom it had endorsed, Mrs. Catherine Ogden and Judson T. Shaplin, associate dean of the School of Education. These two fought against the majority of the committee in a valiant attempt to repeal the appointments...
...teacher who is gulled by a grafting politician until he turns the tables, learning at last that vice is its own reward. The preposterous little fable is funniest when played in deadly earnest. Playhouse 90 pitched it in a mood of self-conscious farce with blackouts to end each act, played it with an ill-starred cast. Comedian Ernie Kovacs as Topaze and Carl Reiner as the swindler heightened the effect of a rambling revue skit, did not so much dominate as swamp their roles with their familiar TV personalities. Still, in a medium that mines so much...
...Enger rises to become the "imported delicacies" king of U.S. grocery-dom, he drags others with him on a golden leash. For the sister who cannot act he builds a theater. The brother who cannot paint is sent to Paris to daub away, and the brother who likes boogie-woogie is made to play Bach. Meanwhile, he nurses an albatross complex about the economic deadweights he has to carry...