Word: rabbiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Things have sure come to a pretty come-off when adult minds have to pick up The Rabbit's Wedding [June 1], a book intended solely for children, to try to gain a point in biased thinking...
Those among our fellow citizens of Alabama who get hot under their galluses about the marriage of a white and a black rabbit in a children's fairy tale might profitably turn their attention to the nearest liquor store. The label of a widely sold brand of Scotch whisky shows two little dogs, black and white, and, moreover, the product is described as a "blend...
...Rabbit Trap (Canon; United Artists). Once upon a time there was a company man (Ernest Borgnine). He worked as a draftsman for a construction outfit, and the fellows all called him "Steady Eddie" because he was never late, never sick, never idle, never got a raise. One year the boss (David Brian) got bighearted and let him take a two-week vacation with pay. So Eddie piled the wife and kid in his '53 Chevy and headed for a place called Deep Springs, where there were some nice cabins, not too expensive. But after a couple of days...
Back home, the kid suddenly remembered the box trap he and his dad had set in the woods at Deep Springs. What if a rabbit got caught in it? Nobody would let him out and he would starve to death. The boy was so sick about the rabbit that Eddie realized he would lose his son's respect, not to mention his own self-respect, if he did not go back and let it out. But the boss was in such a flap about the job that Eddie was afraid to take the day off and make the trip...
...Rabbit Trap was apparently intended as a sleeper, but seems likely to wind up as what the exhibitors call a caboose-the back end of a double bill. In a way, it's a pity. As a social prescription, the story proposes a too simple cure for conformism, but it provides, as a sort of fable for the times, a useful moral: not all rabbits have long ears...