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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Humphrey's voice gets lower and his forehead furrows deeper as the trial pushes its way through an unusually accurate court-fight; he almost gets the guy off except for the last-ditch try of a suitably cynical district attorney who comes through for law-and-order with a witness-stand confession. The picture is populated with Bogart's standard collection of pool-sharks, fifty-year old newsboys named "Junior," and punch-drunk bartenders, but the big star is the camera, which pokes behind garbage cans, into alleyways, and peers around the courtroom with far more than usual perception...
...since 1938. Costs come from a general social security levy of 7.5% on all incomes. Nearly 2,000,000 New Zealanders are entitled to free medical care except for specialist services. Most telling criticism has been that doctors are doing so well financially that they neglect research and spurn lower-paying hospital posts...
What did "declassed" mean? Answered Stravinsky: "To put somebody in a lower hierarchy." Said he: "When somebody feels himself a serious composer of classical music and suddenly is publicized as a jukebox composer-you know that hurt me." Furthermore, his use of the term "morally low" had nothing to do with personal morality; it just described how he felt when he found his music on the same shelf as that of the Cole Porters and Irving Berlins, fine fellows though they might...
...court last week. They had demanded an injunction against 20th Century-Fox for using snatches of their music in The Iron Curtain (exposing the Soviet spy ring in Canada). Said the four: using their music that way might give somebody the idea they were disloyal to their country. A lower court had already refused the injunction. Last week, the New York Supreme Court's Appellate Division turned it down...
...Downs. What about the lower classes in such a society? Eliot answers that culture recognizes no such thing as "lower" classes, it draws sustenance from all It is right and proper for certain ambitious men to fight their way up into the peerage, but the majority are better off sticking to their respective birthrights, each class contributing its special way of life to the culture whole...