Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week) and come out with a couple of dollars. I just couldn't seem to keep from giving it." Witness Lewis complained that Brother Tom said the money was going to be used for noble purposes-a mammoth choir loft to be raised and lowered by push button, a glass-enclosed baptistery similarly operated, a big electric Escalator running from nave to altar. But none of these things materialized. Mrs. Freeda Borchardt, once the Pattens' cleaning woman, explained forlornly that she and her husband had coughed up $2,800 after Brother Tom referred to her during a church...
Back to Jelly Roll Morton. Playing to their first nationwide audience, the Fire-housers sounded like just what they were: topflight amateurs who can push some professionals when it comes to two-beat jazz. Says Kimball: "We try to play as authentically as we can-along the lines of Jelly Roll Morton and King Oliver. We don't try to copy them; we use them as our inspiration. We like to give the tunes our own treatment...
...those fellows who has much faith in push-button peace," he remarked in ducking a question on international atomic controls. He described the atom bomb as "a gadget built up in the public mind to much more than its military value," although he made no bones about it being a terrible weapon, and suggested that the present furor--particularly over the McMahon proposals--might be a similar search for "a gadget for peace." He deplored the tendency for some people "who get attention" to overplay the strength of the atom as a weapon...
Both the physical and emotional setting of the picture are excellent. The young boy, like a seed trying to push roots into barren soil seeks affection, companionship and even faith in his environment. But because Berlin is so desolate and its people reduced to such hopelessness, the boy finds no answer but death. Producer and director, Roberto Rossellini's photography captures perfectly the demolished physical atmosphere of war-term Berlin, while the plot progression skillfully works out the emotional sterility of most of the characters...
...Labor wins again, it will probably not continue nationalization beyond the iron and steel industry (the bill is currently suffering delays in the House of Lords), unless economic conditions worsen considerably. The party is firmly pledged to continue all of the "welfare state" projects, and is expected to push ahead with its colonial development scheme for African agriculture. This plan, it is hoped, will be a long-range solution to Britain's food problems. Thus far it has absorbed much money and produced few peanuts. The Labor campaign has stressed social benefits, housing progress, and the full employment which...