Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gerhart Eisler, much-publicized German communist and brother of the recently deported Hans, will speak at HYD's Civil Rights Meeting Monday evening in place of Paul Reboson, HYD officials announced last night. "Pressing speaking engagements" supporting Wallace for President will keep Robeson from the meeting...
Explaining the purpose of the meeting, Robert N. Bollah '48, one of its organizers, last night cited the Un-American Committee's Hollywood investigations and the "loyalty purge" as evidence for HYD's contention that civil rights are "gravely endangered...
...club will back liberal Democrats for local, state, and national office, and will work for an all-inclusive federal civil rights law. Other planks in the platform are the maintenance of rent controls for the duration of the housing shortage, a 70 cent hourly minimum wage, and extension of Social Security benefits...
...while perhaps not universally satisfactory, is at least acceptable enough to be called sound. But on the dramatic level, "The Survivors" reveals little that could be classed as sound theater, much less as entertaining or inspiring theater. The play takes place in a small Missouri town immediately after the Civil War. It concerns the perverse hatred of three brothers and their grandfather for a local rancher, who apparently contrived to have two of the brothers captured by the Rebels during the war as part of a long-range program designed to wipe out the entire family. There is some confusion...
...feeling between the Hatfield and McCoy families reached back before the Civil War. But the real trouble began in 1873, when Floyd Hatfield (Anse's cousin) appropriated a roaming sow and her litter. Old Randolph McCoy said the pigs were his, and had Floyd Hatfield brought into court. The jury was evenly balanced -six McCoys, six Hatfields. But the judge was a Hatfield, and one of the McCoy jurors (married to a Hatfield) wavered. That did it: the Hatfields won the verdict; the hills got a feud that lasted two generations...