Word: hards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...look like being permanently the paupers of the English-speaking world," the bishop declared. "We need to restrict our population . . . We must preserve the better stocks in the population, and hinder the increase of the worse . . . We need to preserve the good-living, honest, hard-working classes in our people, whether they be rich or poor ... A time is quickly coming when sterilization of the unfit will have to be essential in our social organization...
When it was all over, Reporter Browning found it was "the hardest thing I ever tried to write. It's easy to expose people, but hard to be nice . . . They were really good...
...everything-excitement, pathos, deep feeling and in places an almost folksong quality." Added Hungarian-born Conductor Dorati, who introduced Bartok's opera Bluebeard's Castle in Dallas last year: "I think of this work as a wonderful and beautiful white diamond. It is just as hard, just as crisp and just as white. I think it is an explanation of the whole man who was Bela Bartok...
Things to Come. There are also a few other clouds ahead. Tourist courts and motels are already giving Hilton and other hotelmen hard competition. "We have to keep making our hotels better," says Connie Hilton. "Rooms will have to be larger and they'll have to be soundproofed . . . They will have books, magazines and newspapers, just like a home. They will have radio and television and recording attachments on the telephones so that the guest will receive his messages in the actual words in which they're given. Bathrooms, besides their present equipment, will have ultraviolet-ray machines...
...plot focuses on two days in a Southern town where "an arrogant, hard-headed . . . independent Negro" named Lucas Beauchamp (Juano Hernandez) is accused of shooting a white man in the back. While Lucas rests tranquilly in the jailhouse and most of the county stands outside trying to decide when to lynch him, a few conscience-stricken citizens (including Claude Jarman Jr. and David Brian as a lawyer) set out to prove his innocence. The path they take to clear him leads to such Tom Sawyerish hocus-pocus as grave-robbing and fishing in quicksand for a vanished corpse...