Word: bigot
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...hurt and turned sour. Screen Plays Corporation and director Mark Robson set out to demonstrate this first truth without any mumbling or crossed fingers. What they want to show is simply this: If you hate a black man for being black, he hates your guts for being a bigot. And if you needle him long enough, he's liable to go out of his mind--just as you would. It is not a very fancy message, and it doesn't make for a pleasant, vapid evening at the movies. It is grim and chilling like the problem it poses...
...Servile and impertinent," Lord Macaulay had called him, "shallow and pedantic, a bigot and a sot, bloated with family pride, a talebearer, an eavesdropper, a common butt in the taverns of London." That, for several generations of scholars, was the final verdict on James Boswell. The 18th Century Scotsman was regarded as little more than a toady and a drunken rogue, whose one claim to fame was his great and somehow accidental Life of Samuel Johnson. And many credited the book's virtues to the subject rather than the biographer...
...expatriate Russian. Mrs. Lea Cowles, the plump, attractive widow who directs the nursery school, was borrowed from the University of Alabama department of child development. Says she: "When some of the parents heard I was at Alabama, they thought I would turn out to be a race bigot...
What Msgr. Sheen is describing is not the dawn of the religious phase of human history, but a retrogression to the era of the persecuting bigot and the inquisitor...
...given by all who take part in the production; March and Andrews are especially good. This reviewer would have enjoyed the picture a bit more if it had featured Russell's psychological, rather than mechanical, triumph over his artificial hands, and if, in another scene, it had met a bigot's intolerance with an argument instead of a punch. But these are are minor imperfections in a picture whose freshness and sincerity are as warmly satisfying as a cigarette after breakfast...