Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unified continuity or insight. His production even lacks the basic and most simple elements of stagecraft, failing to recreate the electric atmosphere of a "tragic" court martial in large part because almost none of the cast have any sense of military bearing or authority. They look and act more like hoods in an all-night card game than naval officers struggling with a very difficult question of right and wrong. The characterizations are without exception sloppy and indistinct. In addition, Marker's blocking and use of Sanders Theatre stage are most unhappy. The bulk of the movement in the performance...
...group will ask for undergraduate and graduate student volunteers to write letters to incoming foreign students during the summer and to act as welcoming committees on their arrival in the United States...
...Till kidnapping case and murder of two NAACP leaders in Mississippi were flagrant examples of the absence of "equal protection of the laws" for the Negro citizen. In many less sensational cases between Negro and white, Southern courts have consistently meted prejudicial "justice." Unable to act because the cases themselves concern only violations of state laws, the Department has had to remain passive despite popular protest throughout the rest of the country. The present measure would give a legal implement for enforcing the intent of the Constitution, providing a special division of the Justice Department to investigate civil rights complaints...
This development has been fostered under section of the 1946 Administrative Procedure Act, intended to prevent the secrecy which it has shielded. Executive departments have misused two loopholes in the statute in much the same way that tax evaders withhold information on their earnings...
...tightening, if not closing, the loopholes in the 1946 Act, Congress will reassert its faith in the right of the voters to know about the operations of the government. Until the freest possible flow of information is obtained, no one can competently judge the record of an administration. The present legislation, representing a major step towards eliminating unnecessary secrecy, deserves quick action and unanimous support...