Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other designers must realize in the near future that they have been designing masquerade fashions for the smallest part of our population, the idle rich, who step from home to limousine to Stork Club, etc. If they want to look as if they were going to a Civil War anniversary party, that may be all right, but for the vast majority, including professionals, white-collarites and other moneygrubbers, these padded hips and four-yards-around-the-base balloon skirts will not fit into tiny apartment kitchens where the coffee and toast are rustled up each morning before the mad dash...
American occupation personnel, particularly in civil government, is feeling very low in morale. It is embarrassing, humiliating, and frustrating to have to face up to their German contacts. . . . The Marshall demurral came only as an after-fact. There was no advance reminder from General Clay that the Hamburg docking would be a purely British undertaking; so that even technically the Americans were in no way defended for the record...
...Eddie Dowling & Louis J. Singer) is one more earnest, inept effort to picture the U.S. Negro on the stage as something more than a banjo-strumming, hosanna-shouting field hand. This one examines the struggles of a group of ex-slaves who are trying to hold on to Civil War land grants on an island off the Georgia coast. Without money or political know-how, and bedeviled at every turn by villainous planters, the Negroes doggedly stick to their freedom-loving principles as the forces of greed move in to destroy them...
...Civil Rights in the United States...
...Unless they are stopped, the present methods of fighting communism and socialism by whipping up hysteria and invoking systems of thought control will give us a police state here. We cannot preserve and improve our system of democratic capitalism by undermining our high standard for human rights and civil liberties...