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...scene in The Untouchables. The Lucrezia Borgia in boots is familiar to middle-aging movie fans as the tough-kitten, been-around blonde (sometimes brunette) of several dozen B films and several A's. To the cast of The Untouchables, she is an A-plus director. Her name? Ida Lupino...
...forward a score of proposed constitutional amendments to nullify the effects of the ruling. Newspapers, snowed under by wrathful letters from readers, erupted in editorial anger. To the Supreme Court Building in Washington came hundreds of letters and telegrams agreeing with the sentiments of Los Angeles Municipal Judge Ida May Adams, who concluded her usual court-opening prayer with a new plea: "God bless the Supreme Court and in Your wisdom let it be shown the error of its ways...
...Dostoevskian substratum of Greenwich Village. Each has been chosen as a representative of melting-pot America. Negro Rufus Scott, a jazz musician from Harlem, has never been able to learn his identity as a man because he could never forget his identity as a Negro. His sister Ida battles the white world too, but ends by yielding to the love of her brother's best friend, an Irish-Italian from Brooklyn named Vivaldo Moore. Blonde Clarissa Silenski, a Boston aristocrat (Puritan uprightness. Puritan guilt), is disappointed in the second-rate values of her husband Richard, a teacher and writer...
...ultimately emerges is a tremulous song in praise of the Midwest, a region that has long needed a minnesinger. Harnack touches expertly on the deep small-town need to believe in such absurdities as 1) that little Joanie Henkman is the world's best cornet player, 2) that Ida Bean's goiter baffles the greatest brains in medicine, and 3) that if only Blacky Neuzig had been given his "big chance," he could have played major league ball. Iowa-born Author Harnack is married to Novelist Hortense Calisher and teaches English at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville...
...scholarship of the writers is much less arresting than their scorn, their scolding, their sense of civic virtue. Their language is filled with the old words of Christian righteousness ("spoliations," "disorderly house," "men of evil"), but in every case their targets were more formidable than their words. Ida Tarbell made Standard Oil "her province, referring to it here and there as "the Monster." Phillips, the wildest of them all, took out after the Senate, calling its leaders that "group of traitors in the service of the thieves...