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...thinks is becoming more & more authoritarian. "I dread a world state run by biologists and economists ... by whom no life would be tolerated that didn't contribute to an economic purpose . . . Art can offer the surest escape from the tedium of threatening totalitarianism. It mustn't be reckless, freakish, fantastic, but must console and ennoble...
...more Laski indulges his distaste for the American businessman, the more reckless he grows in boosting the merits of a collective economy and in minimizing its dangers. His bland references to the U.S.S.R. as "the great experiment" which threatens free enterprise with "successful socialism" are likely to chill the spines of many who otherwise might hear his opinions with respect...
Baptism. In Oklahoma City, Lawrence T. Surginger was fined $6 for reckless driving while taking his driver's test...
...whites' refusal to tolerate intermarriage. He says flatly that there is no solution to the problem, if this is the problem. He believes that Northern Negroes and civil-rights defenders who, in attacking segregation, also attack complaisant Negroes as "handkerchief heads" and "Uncle Toms," are merely being reckless. But, says Cohn, if Mississippi whites were sure that Negroes would accept social segregation, they might be much more inclined to give them every other kind of equality (in voting, schooling, jobs). He thinks they should...
Fort Apache (Argosy; RKO Radio), John Ford's first movie since his apostolically solemn Fugitive, is an unabashed potboiler. An idiotically reckless martinet (nicely played by Henry Fonda) tries to impose spit & polish on a begallused garrison in the Far West. After leading a suicidal charge against the local Indians, he is posthumously adored as a hero-except by the men (John Wayne, et al.) who had to carry out his orders. His daughter, a stock Pert Chit by the name of Philadelphia Thursday (Shirley Temple), meanwhile romances with a young officer (played, in appropriate magazine-illustration style...