Word: attraction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Zonalizations about the club's failture to mobilize the energies of its membership and to define a meaningful role for itself flow freely from all quarters of the club. Critics charge that the club is bound to attract young politics on the make--"oftensive, back-slaping manipulators," one former executive committee member called them--who in their frantic efforts to establish the groundwork for future political careers inevitably make fools of themselves and a farce of the organization...
...they believed they were choosing a moderate along the lines of outgoing Governor Luther H. Hodges over a segregationist, I. Beverly Lake. Appealing to urban voters, organized labor, Negroes, bankers, and manufacturers, Sanford soft-pedaled the race issue and emphasized his proposals to increase expenditures in education and to attract new industry into the state. His victory was built upon a doubly unfavorable platform of increasing taxes and facing race relations with "massive intelligence, not massive resistance...
...further its policy of "open enrollment," the School Committee also offered to provide free subway tokens for elementary school pupils who want to attend a school more than a mile and a half from their homes. Such unsupervised transportation of young children is not likely to attract many Negro parents...
...major shift in orientation will be needed to accomplish its aim of fermenting democratic revolutions. Rather than let the Peace Corps degenerate into an export model of the 4-H club, they are aiming at wholesale transformations of the communities in which they work. Simple idealism could never attract the kind of manpower they need. Their project requires an entire philosophy of life, a philosophy based on practicality and the value of direct experience. A Choice I Made embodies that philosophy, and at the same time, the highly sophisticated technique of the film insures that the finer points of that...
Chase has very few dull moments, nor does it lack the courage to cash in on its convictions, most of which are half-truths deftly rigged to attract liberal non-thinkers. Miss Hellman seldom lets a scene end without tacking on her comment; except for a handful of courageous, long-suffering Negroes and Sheriff Brando, no Texan escapes being singed by a Statement. Brando ably plays the stereotyped champion of human rights that he seems compelled to endorse in film after film, changing only his dialect. Bloody, brutally beaten by local louts, he makes a final, desperate attack against prejudice...