Word: hearted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Poverty, of course, is the heart of the problem. Alabama's economy has been shaky since Reconstruction days, and the euphemistic talk of the "New South" has little evident effect outside of the few industrial centers like Birmingham or Huntsville. To some extent, this general economic depression is to blame for the black poverty, and liberal-but-loyal white southerners concernedly tell visitors that "these poor folks--black ones and white ones--are a real problem...
...black children in central Alabama suffer brain damage by the time they are five years old because of protein deficiency. Adult Negroes show the effect of another kind of malnutrition. A diet based on fat and carbohydrate produces bloated, formless women, and men who die twice as often of heart disease as whites...
...themselves, that our ideals are your ideals, or at least what you have professed to be your ideals. Nor are they difficult to understand. Honesty, equality, peace, love--these are the words you have taught us to respect, and these are the values we have taken to heart. But at the very moment that you stress these abstractions, you seem to be asking us to accommodate ourselves to a society that reduces them to slogans and then proceeds blatantly to disregard them...
These two people are so solidly realized that the conventions of the crime thriller-careening cars, daring acrobatics, the inexorable dragnet-are all but incidental. The film's most heart-stopping sequence, in fact, is the hero's climb to the roof of the orphanage to retrieve a lost ball. This is only one of the many small human truths that Director Charles Crichton (The Lavender Hill Mob) presents to delight and surprise the eye. A phalanx of nannies march through Hyde Park as though each tree and blade of grass belonged to them. The faces of children...
Trying to preside over it all is Wolf Walker, a troubled escapee from a Hasidic Jewish boyhood. For him-head still throbbing with Talmudic commentary and heart still wrung by questions of moral choice-the academy is a refuge from his own perplexed humanity. Armed with tough talk ("Suicides are like children. You have to know when to ignore them"), he struggles to give academy inmates a fairer choice than they ever got in the real world. At the same time, he fights off board members who are chiefly interested in getting the would-be suicides to leave their money...