Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chaplin's use of the sound track is sparing but excellent. His own brilliant musical score has the double virtue of being perfectly appropriate and independently memorable. In his opening scenes, showing civic stuffed shirts unveiling a monument, the speeches come through as squeaky noises that are at once a spoof of the speakers' pomposity and a nose-thumbing Chaplin commentary on the ya-ta-ta of the early talkies. He uses sound again when he swallows a whistle and his squealing hiccups bring dogs and taxicabs...
...sober, civic-conscious Kansas City Star, the city's school system was in "a terrible mess." Moreover, it was attracting unfavorable attention outside Kansas City. Something, cried the Star, had to be done...
They were civic leaders, veterans, labor leaders, teachers, students, businessmen, lawyers, priests and ministers. They were people who thought that there was a solution to the nation's international problems beyond supporting the Marshall Plan, the Atlantic pact, and the rearmament of Europe. They believed that the State Department and the Congress could do better than that...
Personal satisfaction, according to Lyman S. Moore, City Manager of Portland, Maine, is one of the big rewards of municipal civic workers. In a question period following the talks, Moore pointed out that "One man's red tape is another man's system...
...meeting was adjourned wearily at 11 p.m. with 24 articles on the warrant still unvoted on. A second meeting Tuesday filed to draw a quorum: the town still has over a third of the year's business to complete. This civic apathy and the large agenda are combining to make the traditional town meeting a clumsy instrument of government for the town...