Word: evens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...children's vast measure of unhappiness after 16-year-old Arthur Bartley and his 15-year-old girl friend Janet fall from grace and into the evil clutches of an abortionist. The fault here seems to lie not so much with the youngsters' incautious lovemaking, or even with the devil in their flesh, as with obtuse parents, who are never properly plugged in to the problems of their young...
...climactic chase in the night, in which the boy's father snatches the girl from danger, then gives his son enough money to go off and get married somewhere, presumably anywhere, so long as it's away from home. This dubious happy ending suggests an even more dubious moral: Go as far as you like, kids, but admit everything, and then it's possible to get the hell away from those insufferable parents...
...Even more admirable is Actress Carolyn Jones, who is required to deliver most of the old chestnuts ("Put your money where your mouths are"), but manages to give moviegoers one of the funniest, freakiest, most cussedly appealing heroines since Bette Davis, whom she strongly suggests, played the down-South tart in Jezebel...
...enforce any civil law, even when the law conflicts with ecclesiastical law or dogma of the church...
...missions, getting set to go to Rome and then go home on leave. But he plans to return to New Guinea, where there is still "something to do"-help prepare the natives for independence. Mission success notwithstanding, most of New Guinea's tribes are still warlike, and some even practice cannibalism. In 1957 the government caught four young cannibals after their tribe had defeated another (with axes and knives made of human bones) and feasted on the losers. Police handed the cannibals over to the mission for rehabilitation. Under the tutelage of Los Angeles Mission Teacher Frances Dills...