Word: men
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instead, they capture the numbing, back-breaking monotony which is just as lethal to the spirit and body. Norma's struggle to organize her factory has an innocent vigor against which Ritt plays off the smugness surrounding the union officials who come down to confer with Reuben. Beefy, older men, they exude, along with their cigar smoke, a sense of grimy, urban power. In this scene, Ritt effectively portrays both the idealism and the reality of today's unions...
...performance so that it explains not only his character but also where Norma Rae got her fire-cracking sparkle. The ensemble acting of the management staff in the factory deserves kudos as well. Rather than performing as a contingent from the Ku Klux Klan in mufti, the six men act with an understated assurance which suggests, but does not exaggerate, both their down-home humanity and their anti-semitic hostility to Reuben--who does go out of his way to alienate them by swooping in on the factory like an ACLU avenging angel...
...Most men surveyed, however, would be willing to support a war in any capacity, but several held reservations depending on the nature...
...were an all-out, nonnuclear war, do you think our present voluntary military forces would be adequate? If there were a selective service program instituted now, would you serve in any or all of the following capacities? YES NO NO OPINION YES NO NO OPINION Active Reserve Civilian None men 16 60 5 14 60 7 20 25 37 16 women 4 62 3 9 44 16 5 31 51 15 total...
...names "Bert and Margie." (I have, of course, changed the names.) A few days later, regressing to kindergarten, someone had written "Bert and Margie sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g." Yesterday I discovered "Bert loves Margie" written in every stall of the Science Center men's bathroom. Harvard graffiti may never have been witty, but some of us yearn for the old days (the 1960s) when the writing on the wall (as Dylan put it) reflected a more politically committed student body. Ralph Baumgarten...