Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quote George Murphy on farm labor: "Mexicans are really good at that. They are built low to the ground, you see, so it is easier for them to stoop [Oct. 16]." As a Californian of Mexican descent, I wish to assure Candidate Murphy that I am just tall enough to reach that old ballot...
...emphatically deny ever making derogatory comments about bracero Mexican laborers as to their physical abilities or characteristics. I have never said, "Americans can't do that kind of work. It's too hard." I have said that Americans won't do that kind of work, and the experience of California farmers is the basis of that statement. I also bitterly resent your unfair reference to a fine volunteer worker, Mrs. Tucker...
...photography cannot redeem the dialogue, which the actors often appear to be addressing to Destiny rather than to one another, perhaps out of kindness. Actress Bloom intones: "He couldn't touch all we've been to each other." Newman's bandit is a growling comic-strip Mexican who leers: "You cooked dee pot of tamales, I juz' took off dee lid." And in the film's bumbling climax, ironic tragedy turns to fatuity when Harvey belly-whoppers into a clump of sage, staggers to his feet, notes a bejeweled dagger protruding bloodlessly from his chest...
...desolate western whistlestop, three men fall to reminiscing about all the sex and sinnin' that came out at a badman's trial for murder. Seems a Southern dandy (Laurence Harvey) and his wife (Claire Bloom) had been lured into a woodsy glen by a notorious Mexican bandit (Newman), who bound the husband to a tree and then raped the wife. Later, the husband was found dead and the case came to trial. Whether he was killed in a fair fight, murdered by his dishonored wife, or done in by his own hand, depends on which of the protagonists...
...reader who stops short of seeing Davis as tragic must admit that he was an extraordinary man, whose best quality was an inflexible devotion to principle. Davis had been a minor but authentic hero of the Mexican War, an exemplary Secretary of War under Franklin Pierce and, up to a few weeks before he was called to the presidency of the seceding states, an outstanding member of the U.S. Senate. His maltreatment after the Civil War was shameful. President Andrew Johnson signed a proclamation ridiculously charging him with complicity in the assassination of Lincoln, and he was kept in prison...