Word: orphan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headmistress, who is the essence of rigidity, both in attitude and in bearing (she appears to be slightly rheumatic). At the other, there are the repressed girls, led by one especially revolutionary gamin. Between them are the two figures who bear the main stress of the struggle, the sensitive orphan who needs sympathy and the teacher who must endanger her position to give the girl the love she needs. This plot has the makings of a very moving drama, but its potential is never realized, for the two leading characters are not developed enough to make one feel intimately...
Within the limitations of this plot, the acting is superb. The teacher, played by Dorothea Wieck, is effective because she acts with amazing restraint. Hertha Thiele, as the tear-stained orphan, is occasionally coy, but she is usually anemic, thus revealing her psychological state. Director Leontine Sagan, however, pushes her a little too far in the last scene, where she becomes a sort of warmed-over Ophelia. Luckily, the acting is not generally so melodramatic, and the cast as a whole is very good. Maedchen is, perhaps worth seeing, if only for the sake of proving to oneself that...
Meanwhile, the case was complicated by another Jewish war orphan: Betty Meljado, whose Protestant foster mother had sent her to a Catholic school, had also disappeared when the authorities sought to transfer her to a Jewish family. In a series of adventures like a Hitchcock movie, she had been seized, kidnaped, retaken, and kidnaped again-once in a car driven by an ex-priest, who was trying to keep the child from the Jewish family...
...President Truman's point IV program began in 1949 as a non-partisan, almost a non-military attempt to "help underdeveloped countries he themselves." But even before Truman left office, Point IV had been lumped with U.S. military aid programs into the Mutual Security Administration. Under Eisenhower this unwanted orphan of the Democrats became the Foreign Operation Administration. With each change in name the American technical assistance program has become more political and less humanitarian in purpose, until now, under-developed countries distrust it as savoring of imperialism an enforced American ideas, Egypt was ready to respond to U.S. technical...
...bossed an empire of 13 magazines and ten newspapers (True Story, True Detective, Liberty, etc.) with a total estimated monthly circulation of 16 million; of jaundice, aggravated by a three-day fast; in Jersey City. The frail son of an alcoholic father and a tuberculous mother, Macfadden was an orphan at eight. In 1898 he founded Physical Culture magazine ("Weakness is a crime. Don't be a criminal''). By 1931 he admitted to a fortune of $30 million. Married four times and the father of nine, Faddist Macfadden's simpler tenets included "grass eating, having babies...