Word: bigheartedness
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Purlie Victorious (by Ossie Davis) peoples a Broadway stage with Negro characters that the N.A.A.C.P. has long claimed do not exist. Here is a cottonpicking Uncle Tom (Godfrey M. Cambridge) who hymns the supposedly subservient spirituals and cringes, hat in hand, before the white man ("You dah boss, Boss"). Here...
Philip Neri was literally bighearted. People often said that they could hear his heart hammering from far off, and his doctors noticed a swelling in his chest that they took to be a tumor. But after his death, an autopsy showed that his heart was so enlarged that it had...
The Rabbit Trap (Canon; United Artists). Once upon a time there was a company man (Ernest Borgnine). He worked as a draftsman for a construction outfit, and the fellows all called him "Steady Eddie" because he was never late, never sick, never idle, never got a raise. One year the...
But young Bas Wie remembered the happier days of the bighearted Australians, who not only drove the Japanese away, but gave him candy, bully beef and rides in their trucks, until it was time for them to go home. One night in August 1946 Bas Wie thought of his old...
To the 18 million housewives tuned in to Ma Perkins this week, there was little doubt that bighearted Ma would help caddish Jack. For listeners know Ma better than they know Nora Drake, Our Gal Sunday, Young Doctor Malone, Mary Noble and eleven other serial sobbers. Ma, like Ivory soap...