Word: hardings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bomb, pre-strike pace. So did most of the plain people of the U.S. Though men were clubbed and shot at, though thousands were already out of work, the nation's industrial troubles hadn't yet really begun to hurt and the issues were hard to understand (see below). Besides, most people were confident that somehow or other everything would be peacefully settled...
Robert O'Hearn's efficient and fascinating two-level stage tops the Company's previous triumphs in design, and it is hard to subordinate Richard Baldridge's beautiful staging to the play itself...
This movie succeeds, even more effectively than other recent efforts such as the play "Deep are the Roots" or "Home of the Brave" in making the casual spectator think hard about the negro "problem." This is true mainly because the negroes it depicts as central characters are intelligent, sensitive, attractive people whose problems the audience does not hesitate to share. You will catch yourself wondering what you would do in a similar predicament...
...film gets across the hard-to-grasp concept that being a negro is, like everything else, a relative thing. It does not insist that all negroes are bright, pleasant people. It shows along with the neat, smart negroes, the ugly, stupid negroes, demanding of the audience only a degree of intellectual honesty in separating the two kinds, just as it would separate acceptable whites from unacceptable...
Henry Lamar's freshmen served as defensive "Cornell" players against the varsity in a half-hour of hard contact work; then the jayvees ran Cornell plays against shifting varsity defensive players and formations...