Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nations on earth are less color-conscious than Brazil, none more so than the Union of South Africa. Last week, when the Brazilian navy training ship Almirante Saldanha docked in Cape Town harbor, a shipload of sailors and officers ranging in skin tone from pale copper to charcoal black streamed into the city, made havoc of Premier Daniel Malan's brutally enforced segregation policy...
...Keel, playing Magnolia and Ravenal, lift good voices in Composer Kern's buoyant songs, but Actress Grayson is less than entrancing as the belle of the Cotton Blossom, and Actor Keel's impression of a well-born river gambler's courtliness and dash looks like self-conscious make-believe. Ava Gardner, if occasionally out of her dramatic depth, has no trouble looking her part as the sensuous Julie. But she half-whispers Helen Morgan's old numbers (Bill, Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man) in a small voice which, for all its amplification...
...romance, which frosts over whenever Loretta's conscious mind is in control, is embellished with some embarrassingly precious dialogue. She calls Cotten a frog and wants to kiss his warts away; to him, she is "Princess Felicity" or "knucklehead." Her mental condition leads her to such fey adventures as spending the night in his bedroom (listening to him talk shop) and marrying him while her fiancé's back is turned...
...guard herself against the wrong kind of U.S. cultural influence, the commission said, the way to do it is by heavy government spending. The report proposed an estimated outlay of $50 million for a new national art gallery, a national library, historical and scientific museums, to make Canadians more conscious of the best in their national life. Aside from the initial capital outlay, an annual $30 million program was recommended for government sponsorship of the arts and aid to universities...
...full two hour view of bashful, puberty conscious adolescents amuse you, then do not miss the musical comedy adaption of Booth Tarkington's "Seventeen." That is all you will...