Word: offending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Producer Jerry (Johnny Belinda) Wald and Scripter Ranald MacDougall have taken plenty of liberties, but that should not offend Hemingway fans who recognize that To Have and Have Not is one of the master's lesser works. The script reshuffles characters and incidents, creates new ones, even switches locales (from the Florida keys and Cuba to the California coast and Mexico). In reshaping the novel, it softens some cutting edges. But the story is still tough, violent and essentially true to the book's central figure: a rugged individualist, desperately down on his luck...
...mourn. Once in a while, they are sent back for a rest where a dry floor in a shattered building is a treasured luxury and each fighting robot becomes briefly an individual with opinions. Wilson's dialogue is good and true, peppered with obscenities that do not offend because they are used with a naturalness free of novelist's guile...
...months since Lonesome Gal has become a recorded, nationwide show, it has found' sponsors for its beery sentimentality on all but one of its 57 stations; appropriately, most of the sponsors are brewers. But in writing her own purple-prose commercials, Jean tries not to offend teetotalers : "After all, beer is here. I try to explain it as a wonderful refreshment-people don't have to become gluttons...
...Johnson '28, co-author of the "Literary History of the United States," who has been named editor of the papers by the University, pointed out that much of Miss Dickinson's poetry was published under family editing, and that whole sentences have been extracted in order not to offend people...
...George Lasker of [Boston's] WBMS lays the blame for the abandonment of Brahms for bop squarely at the feet of the American advertiser [TIME, May 8]. But he errs in stating that radio commercials offend the esthetic tastes of the listening audience. It is not the esthetic tastes that are insulted, but rather the normal, ordinary, human intelligence...