Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crime in the Streets (Lindbrook; Allied Artists) is a fairly serious little sociological thriller that is flawed by a streak of what might be called sentenementality: the idea that every garbage can has a silver lining. Adapted from Reginald Rose's television play, Paso Doble, it tells the story of a teen-aged rumblebum (John Cassavetes) named Frankie...
...people who work. No living U.S. writer has done more to keep the idea alive, and no one has done it with more literary authority than Chicago Novelist Nelson Algren. His Man with the Golden Arm, 1949's best U.S. novel, dealt with a sordid world of petty crime and drug addiction that shocked many a queasy reader, but it was so firmly rimmed by compassion and understanding that no one could doubt its literary worth. His new one, A Walk on the Wild Side, reinforces his right to the title of poet laureate of Skid Row, but just...
Names of honorary winners have traditionally aroused speculation throughout the University. In the past, not the least of the speculators has been the CRIMSON. But this year, the CRIME will forego its own annual predictions, to open the first annual "Name the Honoraries" contest...
...even of excuses (other than sensational publicity), to justify the invitation of Hiss, a convicted perjurer, to address an institution dedicated to the pursuit of truth. To find truth is hard enough without adding to its elusiveness. Alger Hiss was convicted of a moral as well as a legal crime. Precedent assures us that it is not likely that Hiss would have anything to say to searchers for the truth in a repository of the truth. Law and conscience tell us that he is outside of the tradition. If we were to deny this, as Father Halton observed, what would...
...Smith Act, the Internal Security Act, and the Communist Control Act. The decision, according to Ephraim Martin, the Middlesex Country District Attorney prosecuting Struik, "indicates an intent on the part of Congress to occupy exclusively the field of sedition, at least where the offense charged is a Federal crime...