Word: giving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England and Wales, as in the U.S., the Roman Catholic Church has long maintained a school system of its own, to give children church doctrine along with their Three Rs. Last week, Catholic Parents' Associations in Britain were rallying support for a drastic change: they wanted to persuade the government to take over the Catholic schools. Nobody was happy about it. To the crisis-goaded government it would mean an added financial drain; to British Catholics it might be a dangerous surrender. But there seemed to be no other...
...where his father was club president. Bill himself had been everything from office boy to treasurer at Wrigley Field; in 1941, with the help of Midwest friends, he had bought control of the Milwaukee Brewers. When he moved into Cleveland after the war, he thought he knew how to give the fans their money's worth...
...riders, tightrope walkers balancing above the heads of bleacher fans, a ballpark nursery where mothers could leave the kids while the game was on. As a gag, he gave away live ducks, chickens and pigs. When it looked as though one of his pitchers, Don Black, might have to give up baseball after an injury, Veeck shocked some minority stockholders by giving him a chunk of the receipts from one of Cleveland's games-a handsome...
...central character, a backwoods idealist who becomes a one-man state government, is hard-centered, soft-surfaced Willie Stark (Broderick Crawford). His life story is told in choppy, dramatic incidents, which give the movie a curious pattern-Stark at the football stadium, Stark haranguing a fairgrounds crowd, Stark bulldozing the legislators, Stark posing for cameramen with his estranged family. The small, disconnected scenes hit the eye with the repetitive impact of telephone poles seen from a fast train, and din the main character deep into the mind...
...able a writer, Bowles fails to give his story much significance. Both Port and Kit are neurotic intellectual playchildren so short on real character and appeal that they seem hardly worth saving. The death of one and the madness of the other seem appropriate but by no means tragic ends. Much as she cares for Port, Kit makes love to his best friend and tripmate, Tunner, in a train compartment, again on a sand dune as Port lies dying. Kit and Port, with their indistinct backgrounds and motives, are largely novelist's puppets, and Tunner is a collard lightweight...