Word: recklessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Tulsa had never known a politician like Roy Lundy. Salty, 70-year-old Mr. Lundy, a lumberman, got into politics by accident. Two months ago, he went to a police station to bail out one of his truck drivers who had been arrested for reckless driving. The police refused to accept his check for $100. This made Lundy so mad at the city administration that he resolved then & there to run for mayor...
When the Senate-approved bill to cut income taxes by $4.8 billion reached the House last week, Minority Leader Sam Rayburn did his best as a Canute. He cried that it was reckless, in these times, to invite deficits: "Hadn't we better stay in a position where we will have the money to defend our shores?" But the House was in no mood for debate or delay. When the vote came, 84 Democrats deserted the Administration. The overwhelming tide of passage...
...Director Pierre, his brother, following René Clair, use their highly sophisticated talents on the style perfected in the old Mack Sennett and Chaplin comedies. The story: a slap-happy cross-country French tour, complicated by saboteurs, stolen crown jewels, and burlesqued pursuers. The picture has an air of reckless and generally happy improvisation. It fails to develop and pay off its comic points brilliantly enough, but it is thoroughly enjoyable...