Word: fording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Horse Soldiers (Mirisch; United Artists). "Thundah in thuh outhouse!" the startled Mississippi belle (Constance Towers) exclaims. "Them's Yankees!" Them, to be more precise, is the 1st Brigade, U.S. Cavalry. Colonel John Wayne commanding, and they are plunging along toward Newton Station in Director John Ford's $5,000,000 screen version of Grierson's Raid through the depths of Confederate territory during Grant's advance on Vicksburg. Summoning all her Southern charm, the proud beauty invites Wayne and his officers to dinner. Making the most of her downfall neckline, she leans low over the harried...
Gideon of Scotland Yard. Director John Ford and British Cinemactor Jack Hawkins, as well-coupled a pair as could be imagined, together track down corrupt cops, dope rings, a sex murderer, and other signs of the times...
...Ford's manifesto was the $5 wage for an eight-hour day. Says Bruckberger: "I consider that what Henry Ford accomplished on January 1, 1914 contributed far more to the emancipation of workers than the October Revolution of 1917." Though...
...wolves.'' Quite apart from the typical European unrealism of this notion, Bruckberger points out, what the Russian people did, in reality, was to trade one set of wolves for an even more ravenous lot. In a fascinating confrontation of personalities and social aims, Bruckberger argues that Henry Ford was a greater revolutionary than Karl Marx...
...Ford was scarcely to be a model of good labor relations, he set the stage for what Bruckberger thinks of as maritally minded U.S. capitalism. Like any married couple, U.S. capital and labor argue, but the goal is cooperative fertility, with more wealth and a better life for all. This is the U.S.'s "third way" out of Europe's venomous class-struggle impasse...