Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that his followers give up tobacco, dope and alcohol, bathe often, pray toward Mecca five times a day, even if it means falling upon their knees in the streets. Moslem women should dress modestly, use no lipstick, never allow themselves to be alone in a room with any man except their husbands. Attacking all forms of dependence upon whites, Elijah set up a Moslem restaurant, cleaning business, barbershop, butcher shop, grocery store and department store on Chicago's South Side, a cafe in Harlem, a cafe and a farm near Atlanta, also bought himself a luxurious, 18-room house...
...their talk about "people's democracy," the Communists seemed unable to cope with Gandhi-style passive resistance except by mass arrests, using guns and steel-tipped lathees. On four separate occasions, the police fired into crowds. They killed 15 people, slapped 10,000 Gandhi-style demonstrators in jail. Nor did the Communists help their cause when they openly applauded Red China's brutal invasion of Tibet...
...lighting of museums is too changeable, except in dime-bright climates, and artificial lighting is too colorless and rigid. Le Corbusier's solution at Tokyo is a radical blend of both. Over the central gallery he raised a huge, tentlike, triangular skylight, glassed on its north side. The smaller galleries have long, rectangular skylights. And to illuminate the dark corners, spotlights are set into the ceilings. Some Japanese critics complain that walking through the building ''gives one a very mixed feeling, like a repetitive alternation of night and day." More spotlights should level out the effect...
...picture like-unless, after an eight-year absence from moviemaking, it was only money he was after. The story about a Jewish family has undergone nearly every possible treatment by Author Arnold Schulman (one-act play, TV script, a novel, two full-length plays, one of which made Broadway) except maybe a synopsis baked inside a Chinese fortune cookie...
...RELUCTANT DRAGON (Caedmon) tells of a poetry-loving dragon forced against his will into fighting St. George at 6-4 odds. Except when he becomes too coyly patronizing, Boris Karloff spins his tale with wit, makes it as appealing to adult listeners as its author's far more famous yarn, The Wind in the Willows...