Word: clifford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time (coarse, pravdaically fiendish big-business villains and oppressed but upright working-class heroes) is as dated as its slang. The "Solidarity Forever" day of leftist-labor idealism are over; people who were part of them seldom like to talk about them, even before Congressional committees. In 1959 Clifford Odets' play about striking taxi drivers deserves attention largely as an amusing, nostalgic period piece...
Elmer Bernstein's music heightens the drama captured by the sensitive cameras of James Wong Howe, A.S.C. In addition, there are several jazz numbers by the Chico Hamilton quintet (plus guitar), a group whose modern arrangements lend a suitably syncopated rhythm. The screenplay, by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman (who wrote the book), is for the most part brilliant, capturing the lingo perfectly: "What am I? a bowl of fruit? a tangerine that peels itself?" Or: "Starting today, you could play marbles with his eyeballs." And the pace of director Alexander Mackendrick keeps up with that of the music...
...session's outset, they move that the Senate adopt rules for the 1959 session, as it would plainly have to do if it were not a continuing body. New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits. New Jersey's Republican Senator Clifford Case, Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey and Illinois' Democratic Senator Paul Douglas last week presented a brief to the Senate's presiding officer, Vice President Richard Nixon, making the liberal case that the Senate is not a continuing body. Basis of their argument: The Constitution provides that "each House may determine...
...William Knowland announced his retirement as the Senate's G.O.P. leader to run for Governor of California, the handful of Eisenhower Republicans started talking about a real chance to take over. By last August the insurgent planning revolved around Vermont's George Aiken, New Jersey's Clifford Case and New York's Jacob Javits. After such Old Guard Republicans as Nevada's George Malone, Ohio's John Bricker-and Bill Knowland himself-got soundly whipped in the November elections, Aiken & Co. felt sure that they were on the right track. At first they...
...Tithe That Binds. In Kennett Square, Pa., the Kennett News and Advertiser reported the monthly song feast at a local church, noted that "a liberal offering was lifted by Mrs. Clifford Lee and Rev. R. B. Hardin...