Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deafness is thus real and definable. Psychological damage, if any, is mostly in the ear of the hearer. Not a man exists who has not suffered what the experts call "auditory insult"-annoyance or irritation-but all too often, for purposes of definition, one man's sour note is another man's lost chord...
...everything to glorify the Negro." Its authors-U.C.L.A.'s John W. Caughey, University of Chicago's John Hope Franklin and Harvard's Ernest R. May-admit they made some bloopers. The text, for example, relates the pioneering civil rights leadership of W.E.B. DuBois, fails to note that he became a Communist in later life...
Since nearly every line of dialogue strikes a familiar blue note, the only way to justify still another fictional show-biz biography is to link it to the color question. Adam is a specialty act salted with social protest. It is played at a feverish pitch by Sammy Davis Jr., who has surrounded himself with such Negro performers as Ossie Davis, Louis Armstrong and, as the girl in his cheering section, a sunburst of shy sepia charm named Cicely Tyson. A handful of jazzmen (Mel Torme, Kai Winding, Nat Adderly) make the score swing but aren't much help...
...Note: This film was shown at the Summer School a decade ago. We reprint herewith the review of it that ran in these pages ten years...
Reston has come up with a series of valid criticisms and suggestions for the readjustment of the press to present-day realities and challenges, but I think it is necessary to sound a note of caution concerning such a fundamental change in the "fourth branch of government." Reston has failed to answer one of the obvious questions which emerges after reading his bold suggestions. Where does one draw the line between educational analysis in newspapers and mere propaganda...