Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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VULCAN'S city burned with resentment last week as it waited for U.S. Attorney General William P. Rogers to make good on his promise to call the federal grand jury to investigate a possible violation of civil rights by Birmingham's police force. Six weeks ago Birmingham's cops arrested three Negro ministers from Montgomery who were caught talking with local Negro leaders about a possible bus boycott, charged them with vagrancy. Said Birmingham's police chief, Eugene Connor, who refused even to discuss the case with FBI agents: "I haven't got any damn...
...Negro castration case turned out to be a Ku Klux Klan captain of intelligence - and a member of Alabama's interracial Council on Human Relations who had sat quietly through all council meetings. Method No. 2: Quick Mobilization. The Citizens' Councils have a chain-telephone-call system that can blanket the city in twelve hours. Method No. 3: Phone Threats. A Presbyterian minister who wrote to the Birmingham News last September simply to protest Orval Faubus' indictment of Presbyterian ministers as "brainwashed left-wingers" (TIME, Sept. 29) still gets regular, threatening, dead-of-night phone calls...
Some of these qualities, of course, are the skills in construction, characterization, and dialogue that distinguish playwrights from ordinary people, but Osborne has others that distinguish him from ordinary playwrights. One of the greatest of these is a fervent seriousness and integrity. I do not call this a virtue out of some vague feeling that high-mindedness is a Good Thing. It means that in all probability Osborne will never write a cheap or sleazy sentence in his life...
...being pushed into new adventures. The next chapter of this feminist melodrama is already being written, under a variety of titles ranging from "Red Ink," to "The Economic Noose." The Presidents' reports of the leading women's colleges are beginning to show a nasty preoccupation with money, and to call for a new heroism from their feminist supporters...
...nowadays try to create suspense by merely delaying the story with digressions, or by causing the characters to become confused: " 'He had stopped understanding things over an hour ago.' The idea is that the reader, also bewildered, will feel breathlessly eager to recover his wits and will call the anxiety suspense. Mind is explicitly excluded." Moreover, the new detective fiction is badly put together ("The prevailing impression is of writing by a gifted child with a poor education"). And the authors are so busy treating love affairs "sensitively," making character studies, examining race prejudice, family tensions and other...