Word: lame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...protracted, melodramatic chase through colorful Arizona country, one of the men is injured on a steep canyon slope. At this point, the picture drops its real problem in favor of artificial plot: the boy abruptly reconciles himself to white civilization in a finish that is psychologically and sociologically lame. Independently produced on a shoestring ($100,000) by 29-year-old Actor Hall Bartlett (who also appears in the picture as the schoolteacher), Navajo was filmed on the Navajo Indian Reservation in northern Arizona with a cast of unaffected amateurs headed by Francis Tee Keller, who is appealing as Little...
...Bray has graduated to the nursery for children aged three to eight, and many of her former charges have graduated with her. For this older group she has organized rhythmic games (hand-clapping and singing). She has led a pitiful procession of the mentally lame, the halt and the spastic to the colony's canteen, a whole block and a half away, for a treat of ice cream. "We had never seen anything like that happen before," said a fellow worker. "Everyone talked about it for days...
...other fields, where they thought they were "safe," the Taft forces last week were trying to shake off two small Eisenhower jolts. In a New Orleans primary, Ike's backers won ten of twelve contested seats on the Louisiana Republican Central Committee. The lame-duck committee, led by Taftmen, promptly tried to outlaw the primary on technical grounds, and the fight went to court. In Oklahoma, district conventions began electing the state's 16 delegates to the Republican convention. Five of the first six to be named are Ikemen. Taft Campaign Manager Dave Ingalls rushed into Oklahoma...
...questionnaire, however, conveniently left out the one point that would make this argument relevant: the current emergency is neither as acute or as temporary as full scale war. During World War II Selective Service was adequate only because it could call into service everyone but the blind and the lame; at present it can only fluctuate with the twists and turns of the Cold War, always one step behind events. For a prolonged period of semi-emergency, such short-range measures are inadequate, and the fact that UMS is not temporary is a strong argument in its favor...
Second time out, in The Seasons' Difference, he runs wide around the turns of meaning, breaks stride in the stretch and pulls up lame at the finish. As before, Novelist Buechner carries a minimum plot load, but the gravity of his theme is enough to make him stumble. He sets himself two problems that have tripped up better novelists: 1) to etch the profile of a saint without making him a prig, 2) to make a religious experience ring with the homely authority of an alarm clock...