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...more directly to race-relations problems. He believes that progress in civil rights for the Negro has been "miraculous," but that "of all the institutions, the church has been the least able to adjust to the change in racial atmosphere." The reason: "The church is too much white middleclass, and reflects too much the conservatism of this social and economic group. There is fear that the church might take too rad ical a stand...
...middleclass exile" I would be proud to once again be a resident of Detroit...
...hell he has staked out for them is by now unmistakably Cheever country (nice house, nice income, nice wife, nice kids, all of it tasting of despair and a thick tongue the morning after). But only rarely is there a true hellion to be found there. There are, rather, middleclass, earthly sufferers whose jobs are as uncertain or as unsatisfying as their moral underpinnings, their visions of goodness constantly clouded by the more intolerable vision of the sad ending that must overtake them and their neighbors...
Facts of Life. A satirical, sometimes wonderfully nutty comedy of manners-and the funniest U.S. film since The Apartment-casts Bob Hope as a middleclass, middle-aged philanderer fumbling after Lucille Ball, and perhaps after the meaning of marriage...
Facts of Life. A satirical, sometimes wonderfully nutty comedy of manners-and the funniest U.S. film since The Apartment-casts Bob Hope as a middleclass, middle-aged philanderer fumbling after Lucille Ball, and perhaps after the meaning of marriage...