Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white and a Negro, it is the Negro who is prejudged and presumed guilty . . . This is what I seem to have forgotten." Wrote Columnist Mardo : "This writer would like to take note of the serious criticism he has received for the errors of omission [which] resulted in a poor, politically incorrect column . . . There should have been no discussion of [Commissioner] Chandler and Durocher without linking it to the main question of white chauvinism inherent in this whole case. I deserved the alert criticism that has come...
...Torment" is the story of an 18 or 19 year old schoolboy who falls in love with a shopgirl of poor reputation. Their love brings about her regeneration as well as much happiness to them both. Unfortunately, the girl has been having an affair with a sadistic school teacher who has been regularly getting her drunk and subjecting her to the sort of depravities the demented, educated mind dreams up. Between tormenting the girl at night, and the classroom torment he gives the body during the day, the schoolteacher causes one death and one near-ruin among the young couple...
...Beacon Hill, is not cut from the same hearty fabric as were its illustrious predecessors from the country. Though it contains in its cast two of Italy's biggest stars, Anna Magnani and Gino Cervi, their talents can do little to redeem a weak and confusing plot, poor photography, a strident musical score, and the general low quality of the film...
...More substantial representatives of the British race I never saw, enlightened men all who will see that justice is done. The Defendant, Dan McCook, is a horrid fellow, a real dandy, and the Jury again deserves credit for reading their newspapers rather than listening to his fine voice. The poor, dear Angelina of Joan Dexter is positively radiant in spite of the beastly treatment she has undergone. And though his law's a fudge, justice is competently and wisely apportioned by Judge Arthur Shercliff. So impressed, in fact, was the public with the outcome of the "Trial" that I think...
...spring of 1947, the Liberal Union began showing films at the New Lecture Hall on an informal basis. The equipment was poor, the auditorium was physically and visually distorting, and the films were usually "tainted" with social criticisms. (The HLU had an actively "radical" reputation which it does not have now.) The audiences were small, and frequently hostile, even when so fine a film as Rene Clair's "A Nous la Liberte" was shown. In this instance, at least, their animosity was easily explainable: coming to see the Clair film, they first had to sit through two suspicious shorts...