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...exploits the malaise it pretends to examine, and the drama becomes sociosexual cheesecake, an oversized slice of Danish blue. The camera records what the characters do, but offers few insights into the individuals or the society that produced them. Cruelly stomping down a child's sand castle, raising hob in a roadhouse, or pairing off at random, they seem little more than anonymous delinquents-the kind of blank, boisterous folk that cause the family trade to gather up their towels and baskets and move to a nice quiet spot at the far end of the beach...
...perhaps, sudden-like, she might see that it was the same old thing: White folks in this country have been demanding that Negroes lie to them for a long time. The lie and its anticipated consequence, a slight but noticeable and sometimes crucial lifting of the hob-nailed boot from a black neck, formed a principle of existence for a whole lot of people long before the Fathers signed their ambiguous document and still does. If you act white, you're going to be lied to. Or better, if you don't act black. Because skin is skin...
...Fall River, Mass., Gene Murphy, the telephone company's business manager, finally found out what was playing hob with the service when he chanced on an item in the teenagers' column of a suburban weekly that gave the new beep number-a radio station's recorded weather-reporting service. He discovered that in one week the number of "busy" calls made to the station had jumped from 1,495 to 27,928. Murphy boosted the sound of the busy signal, but the teen-agers just shouted louder. So he had technicians do a job of special rewiring...
...about $60 a month, plus room and board and social security benefits, a housewife can hire an inexperienced Spanish girl who speaks no French at all. This language barrier is playing hob with Parisian social life. Many a telephoned invitation gets no farther than "Madame no está. No se. Tarde, tarde." CLICK. And one Spanish maid, after long employment had given her confidence, approached her mistress and asked her why on several occasions she had been ordered to put the family cat in the icebox. It is easy to see why the cat was cold. Gato is Spanish...
...Gates often thought of going back to Philadelphia, both to make more money and to spend more time with his family, but his sense of duty kept getting in the way. In early 1959 he submitted his resignation, but President Eisenhower persuaded him to stay on. "It plays hob with my personal plans," said Gates to an aide, "but I guess it is my duty." Today, a year and a half later, the President and the Pentagon can be thankful that Gates saw it that way-but then, being Tom Gates, he could hardly have seen it otherwise...