Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chaplin. The Observer said: "Should American authorities really intend to revoke his permit . . . because of random imputations and not on the basis of judicial verdict, they would be acting . . . rather shabbily and with little sense of logic ... If the great comedian wishes to stay here in the country whose citizenship he has so pertinaciously retained, he will be less harassed and very welcome...
Wisconsin has a good balance of rural and urban voters, a record of alert citizenship and no tradition of following reactionary demagogues. From county to county it has considerable variety in occupation, national strains and religion, and yet McCarthy carried 69 of the 71 counties.*Under those circumstances, it is hard to see how McCarthy's appeal can be peculiar to Wisconsin...
...Motive; the Apotheosis of the I.Q. ; the Glorification of the Aptitude Test; the Popular Demand for Individual Attention; the Rise and Decline of Progressive Education; the Cumulative Menace of the Movies, Radio and Television; the Falling off in Voluntary Reading; the Multiplication of Records; and finally, the Training for Citizenship...
...order revoking Bridges' citizenship...
...oversimplified dramatic homily on the theme of good & evil. Good is personified by a pure-in-heart Mexican field worker (Ricardo Montalban), who wears a Homburg hat and checked jacket and proudly sports his newly acquired U.S. citizenship. When he meets and proposes to embittered Shelley Winters (Evil), a California wino who has hit the bottom of the barrel, she says cynically: "You and me and America, that'd be a threesome for a honeymoon!" Before long, Montalban reforms not only Shelley, but also thieving Farmer Wendell Corey and his slatternly wife Claire Trevor...