Word: quos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legislate against prejudice" is a complacent old saw for justifying a segregated status quo. Discrimination, however, can be outlawed as a step toward eliminating prejudice. In 1948, Truman effectively barred any consideration of color in filling government posts and ended segregation in government restaurants. A new anti-segregation act could do the same for schools and commercial establishments...
...Bundestag ratified the European Defense Community treaty providing for an integrated European defense force (including 360,000 Germans) under NATO's supreme command. It was the first of the six "Little Europe" powers (the others: France, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands) to do so. This was the quo; a few minutes earlier, the Bundestag had already approved the quid: the allied peace contract restoring to Germany increased but not complete sovereignty after eight years of occupation. With these two votes, Western Germany took a decisive step in its emergence from defeat into a partnership in the free world...
...Colosseum was to be used for the premiere, but: "It's too damn cold now to get them sitting out there at night." Also abandoned was a scheme to stage a chariot race along five roads converging on Rome. There were plenty of advertising tie-ins, however. Quo Vadis was linked with shirts, perfume, razor blades, and a contest among 400 hairdressers for the best coiffure inspired by the movie...
...Finally, Quo Vadis opened, last week...
...like so many U.S. critics, the Italian reviewers were tough. Wrote Il Messaggero: "Overloaded, slow, cold, sometimes even annoying, without that alacrity, that concentration, that surprise, that stimulus . . ." Giornale d'Italia: "Artificial characters . . . commonplace grandiosity ..." Il Tempo: "[Quo Vadis] leaves the Italian public disturbed and perplexed. We have studied Rome and the Romans in school, and every day along our streets we meet their memories in stone. It cannot give us pleasure to see them camouflaged as clowns, or, to put the best light on it, as cowboys...