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...Raisin in the Sun. Tenement realism about family life in Chicago's black belt bursts out in a writhing, vital mess...
...Raisin in the Sun. A rhetorical but affecting film translation of Lorraine Hansberry's play about Negro life in a Northern ghetto...
...Raisin in the Sun (Columbia) is essentially a writhing, vital mess of tenement realism. Unfortunately, in this film translation of her 1959 Broadway hit. Scenarist Lorraine Hansberry apparently felt obliged to sprinkle the mess occasionally with Mammy's own brand of brown sugar, douse it frequently with the skim milk of human kindness that too often passes for social concern, and then serve it all up as a sort of pablum for progressives. Even so, the mixture makes pretty strong medicine for a society afflicted with what the author calls "acute ghettoitis...
...July, the likeliest prospect is a landslide for the Republicans of old (76) ex-President Ismet Inonu, heir of the late great Kemal Ataturk. In coffeehouses the Turks cheered the return to democracy, happily discussed the merits of the new and old parties over rose-scented glasses of raisin liquor. As Nasreddin Hodja, a popular medieval sage, once declared: "When God wishes to make a man happiest, he causes him to lose his donkey, then find it again...
...monks of the Abbey of the Genesee, near Rochester, N.Y., introduced New Yorkers to Monks' Bread, small and firm loaves of white, whole wheat and raisin bread, some of it made from a 9th century formula. The demand was so great that they set up a modern automatic bakery. But they turned down an adman's suggestion that, because they work in silence, they use the slogan: "Baked in Silence. Too Good for Words...