Word: kindness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pretend to be an expert on Communism or any other kind of a political 'ism'," said Second-Baseman Robinson. ". . . But you can put me down as an expert on being a colored American, with 30 years' experience at it. And ... I know that life in these United States can be mighty tough for people who are a little different from the majority - in their skin color, in the way they worship their God, in the way they spell their names...
...Americans, Jackie thought, are ready to cry "Communist" every time they hear a complaint about the Negro's status in the U.S. "The white public," he said, "should start toward real understanding by appreciating that every single Negro who is worth his salt is going to resent any kind of slurs and discrimination because of his race and he's going to use every bit of intelligence to stop it ... Negroes were stirred up long before there was a Communist Party, and they'll stay stirred up long after the party has disappeared-unless Jim Crow...
...trip to Europe and see if he could land some reconstruction contracts abroad. His offer: to build complete industrial installations (e.g., steel plants, sugar mills, gas manufacturing plants) anywhere in the world. Before he left, a friend warned him: "Sam, if you're going to Europe, wear some kind of uniform. It'll get you any place and you'll get no place without it." Sam designed his own outfit and found it worked like a charm, cowing officious customs men and clearing the way through red tape to top men. Once he was even saluted...
Gatsby tries hard, in some respects, to be a good movie. Its musical score, costumes and sets show painstaking research and a kind of wistful desire to be true to the novel. In individual scenes, in fact, Elliott Nugent's shrewd direction achieves an illusion of complete authenticity. But there are signs aplenty of heavyhanded tampering and cutting, and an unconscionable distortion of the novel's tone and intention. Like most second-rate copies, Gatsby captures much of the detail, but defaults on the grand design...
...cluttered middle-class cellar like any respectable family man, and, like many a middle-aged business executive, nurses a bad heart and frustrated hopes for a fishing trip. Above all, he is "a nut for human dignity" (as one of his employees puts it) and always has a kind word and a fistful of bills for the men he has ruined...