Word: lee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University is caught in a big squeeze," Abramson said, "since the City could force spending of huge sums of money by refusing to continue current lee-ways in building requirements." Abramson did not restrict this pressure to construction of new buildings...
...refer to Utah as "nominally Republican" [Sept. 24]; it should be observed that Bracken Lee was the first Republican governor in 24 years, and the only Republican state official to be elected to office in Utah in the 1948 elections. TIME and Kingmaker Watkins to the contrary, Governor Lee has led the resurgency of the Republican Party in Utah. His defeat at the hands of switchover voters spells trouble for the Republicans come November...
...George. To outward appearances, Herman has progressed not only beyond his father's viciousness and venom but beyond the uncertainties that haunted the brash youth who seized the governorship in Atlanta that rainy night nearly ten years ago. Smooth and suave as an actor, Herman in his "tel-lee-vision" (as he calls it) appearances has convinced Georgians "that a Talmadge doesn't have horns and a tail, and that he wears shoes." He has abandoned his father's blatant white-supremacy tactics, instead speaks airily of constitutional government and the people's right to rule...
...handling of the relations between the characters is often clumsy. The people are so explicit with each other, especially at the start, that their conversation sounds more like exposition: "Why isn't he a regular fella, Bill?" "He certainly isn't a chip off the old block, Herb." Tom Lee's reputation as an "off-horse, not a regular guy" is established at once--crudely, with dialogue that is blatantly expository. His schoolmates don't speak like human beings, not even like unkind human beings...
...person, he is rather a symbol of the exaggerated masculinity whose persecution Tom suffers. With the film's emphasis on the "problem" rather than the people, the schoolmaster's self-doubt--which, in the play, made him human and even sympathetic--is hardly apparent. Similarly, as Tom Lee, John Kerr cannot give his part the truth it had in the original. Though the adaptation adds to his role a suicide attempt and a pajama fight, he is somewhat wooden; and his awkwardnesses are not those of a boy since he seems, and is, much older than 18. Only Deborah Kerr...