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...ostracized by other white students. Racially mixed groups come into the cafeteria without being hissed, and Negroes use the student union grill without being particularly noticed. Meredith often ate at the cafeteria, but never ventured into the grill, a more informal "hangout" for a number of the close-knit cliques on campus...
...order to propel his close-knit cast through a long, fragmentized narrative, Director Lumet has to bob around a good deal, ticker-taping a chatty alumnae newsletter across the screen like subtitles in a foreign movie, sometimes cutting from character to character as though he were taking an opinion poll. Linking political and social history to the girls' private affairs also creates momentary strain, since the audience cannot really profit much from learning that the German army has attacked Poland just after good ole Pokey (Mary-Robin Redd) delivers her second set of twins. Although The Group...
Backstage at the burlesque (if this show could be called burlesque) is much the same as the stage door view of any other production. The same old naked lightbulb dinginess, the same sense of close-knit but often tempestuous community, the same jaded vitality. The only difference here was the injection of a vaguely nudist camp atmosphere...
...social workers their ways often seem as anticly unreal as those of Snuffy Smith or Moonbeam McSwine. While they have few worldly goods and little interest in acquiring more, most mountain folk of Southern Appalachia cling stubbornly to an ar cane way of life and the bucolic virtues-hardihood, close-knit family ties, fierce independence of outside authority-that were the models of an earlier America. With federal funds coming in, no one in Handshoe Hollow goes hun gry any more. Nor are the pappies very happy...
Second, and more important, his words aren't those of a Sheriff Rainey--or of any other segregationist. For Chuck Morgan is a member of that close-knit band of rebels called Southern liberals who periodically speak their minds--and shatter the peace and quiet of the Southern way of life...