Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to the 75,000-word Devlin report, Nyasaland's London-appointed governor, Sir Robert Armitage, was justified in declaring an emergency last March: "The government had to act or abdicate." But the report condemned the excesses of police and special constables for what followed: 51 Africans killed, 79 more injured, hundreds clapped into jail without trial. Furthermore, Devlin and his fellow investigators found no evidence of a murder plot against thousands of Europeans, as the Colonial Office had alleged, and pointed out that not one single European was killed. "When the time came to prepare the justification...
...Director Ernest Besig, and he called upon the writings of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson for proof: "No official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess, by word or act, their faith therein." The San Francisco Chronicle also held Eyman out of line, thought another judge might force a defendant to go to a church other than his own, or even require an atheist to go to church...
...famed Filmaster Frank Capra (It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town) needed this picture like-unless, after an eight-year absence from moviemaking, it was only money he was after. The story about a Jewish family has undergone nearly every possible treatment by Author Arnold Schulman (one-act play, TV script, a novel, two full-length plays, one of which made Broadway) except maybe a synopsis baked inside a Chinese fortune cookie...
...none of Director Capra's sharp, knowing touches about people really save this one-act vignette from being lost for 120 minutes on the wide screen. To beef it all up, he has loaded it with unconscionable plugs for the Miami Beach shoreline, an expensive hotel, fashion models, flamingos and dog races. But not even Capra could plug all the holes...
...half of the world against the other." One fears that it was only a sense of the most literal realism that led Betti to choose this milieu as the setting in which the gospel of irresponsibility is preached in its baldest form: "We are all excused from having to act. We are only spectators: we shall do no more than watch. And naturally, we shall also submit. ... We see hands move: and they're not ours. The gestures of a dream." The reverberations of Betti's grand debate resound from Professor Morgenthau's reflections on foreign policy to the amoral...