Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lesson of Little Rock. Why were they doing it? "I reckon Little Rock learned us a lesson," snarled one Teddy boy. Ranted a black-bearded ex-serviceman: "I'm a nigger hater all right. I happen to love this country of mine . . . Before the war we were supreme beings-30,000 of us kept one-third of the earth's surface in order. We've got to keep the blacks down or they'll take over like Hitler did."* And a Times reporter noted that the hoodlums came from all over London, even from areas where...
...Tahiti Nui II, it was a familiar gamble. All his days he had given odds to death and won. Born near the French seaport of Calais, the son of a wealthy and aristocratic family, De Bisschop at 14 ran away from a Jesuit seminary, signed 'on as cabin boy on a sailing ship that beat its way around Cape Horn...
...Opus Jazz, before brilliant backdrops by Ben Shahn, cool cats off the city streets wander through the compulsive variations of "The Slop," Robbins' reproduction of a minor juvenile mania. Five boys and one girl horse around on a rooftop, spelling out the amoral communal sex of the tenements. A Negro boy and a white girl grope through their loneliness, reaching out with palms that never quite touch. The whole show adds up to the first hit of the fall season. At 39, Dance Master Jerry is still making the guests happy...
...made. A ruddy, stained-glass genius, that's what they called 'im. 'E's no genius, 'e's a bloody miracle worker. 'E's taken the evacuation at Dunkirk-their finest hour, like the aowl' boy said, an' the greatest military operation in the 'aowl' bloomin' 'istory of military warfare-an' 'e's got official films and records, pots of money, 'e's got a cast 'e couldn't squeeze into Trafalgar Square, an' wot else...
...children hide pennies from their aunt until they have saved enough to buy a pair of brushes and three cans of shoe polish. For a short while they prosper, but with the coming of the rains their customers lose interest in shoeshines. Close to starvation, the boy and his sister are accidentally separated; from there the film wanders to an ending that, for all its melodramatic sentimentality, fits perfectly into the picture's curious blend of gutter reality and fairy-tale dreaminess...