Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shrike (Universal-International), adapted from Joseph Kramm's coldly furious Pulitzer Prizewinning play (TIME, Jan. 28, 1952), is both colder and angrier than it was on the stage. As a Broadway hit, it was a protesting shocker about an intelligent but morally weak man, who summons enough resolution to try suicide, only to revive in the white hell of a big-city hospital's psychiatric ward. Ably directed by Co-Star José Ferrer, the film protests not only against municipal snake pits but also against another unattractive institution-marriage between crutchlike women and emotionally crippled...
...state became firmly fixed in the Sikh mind at the time of the partition of old British India, when some Sikh country was shaved off to make part of what is now West Pakistan. Forced to move out, the Sikhs left a trail of massacre behind them, and were furious when Nehru ordered their swords to be sewn into their leather scabbards. Said old Tara Singh: "When the Moslems can get Pakistan, and the Hindus India, why not a Sikhs' Sikhistan?" But Nehru's Congress Party won over many of Tara Singh's followers to the idea...
...roles, Robert Strauss and Donald MacBride also help to slow down the farce pace, while Oscar Homolka, as the psychiatrist, loses most of his best lines in transition from Broadway and delivers the remainder in too impenetrable an accent. Itch should have emerged on the screen as a fast, furious and funny comedy; at times it is all of these, but, continuously, none of them...
...CRIMSON was furious the next day: "In the first place there was no riot until wagon loads of police charged the crowd with drawn night sticks, in answer to a summons for aid, not a riot call. The police, in other words, created a riot before quelling it." One student had been knocked unconscious for resisting arrest, apparently while in the act of going for a late snack in the Square...
...with a promise to veto a proposed right-to-work bill. His courtship won the A.F.L.'s endorsement-to the amazement of the Democrats-and after the 1954 election Goodie kept his promise: the bill was stifled quietly in committee. Wealthy ranchers, who had pushed the bill, were furious and frustrated...