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...both proselytes are betrayed by their family background. Young Thompson's mother is taking on with a lodger, and in destroying the lover's symbol of superiority, his car, the lad is badly burned. Fifteen-year-old Shirley (Sarah Miles) has been starved of love by her family; she lets a gentleness on Weir's part toward her desires to learn kindle a puerile passion for him. The passion must be dashed, and the result is an unpleasant trial of the teacher for indecent assault. Acquittal does not save Prometheus's reputation, and Weir is forced to destroy one principle...
...record leaves folk songs largely behind and roams the boundaries of the public domain. Since Gilbert and Sullivan are there now, Sherman has a go at When I Was a Lad from H.M.S. Pinafore: "So I thank old Yale and I thank the Lord And I also thank my father who is chairman of the board." Aura Lee emerges this way: "Every time you take vaccine, take it orally . . ." But the best of all is a number in which Queen Victoria sings the Bill Bailey melody, sniffling, "Disraeli, won't you please come home...
...Eastern tracks admire Dancer's aggressive racing tactics ("I like to get out front fast and stay there"), crowd the paddock before each race pleading: "Hey, Dancer! You feelin! O.K. tonight! Hey, Dancer! Win us a few, huh?" His eight-year-old gelding, Su Mac Lad, has won more money ($567,849) than any other trotter in history, in 1961 became the only U.S. horse to win the Roosevelt International, and two weeks ago was named 1962's Harness Horse of the Year. Henry T. Adios, another Dancer-trained colt, is this year's pacing champion...
...family to join him in paradise. His son first discovers an interest in Mormonism when he notices the fine pair of boots a bishop is wearing. Neatly mixing materialism with religion, the bishop makes his convert: "No Lutheran could obtain a pair of boots like these, my lad." he says. "These shoes are a proof that the Church of the Latter-day Saints is founded on the All-Wisdom. These shoes have been a much stronger argument for me in arguments with Lutherans than any quotations from the Prophets...
...cookie jar, a relentless agent of the law who brings the hero to what the picture plainly does not think is justice. In the end, given the chance to win his freedom by winning a big race for the greater glory of the Guv'nor, the lad leads the way right up to the finish line-and stops. Why? Because he suddenly makes up his mind that if he has to play the game according to the rotten inhuman rules laid down by The Establishment, he would rather not play...