Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relationships, while the story's very background is imperious. The play involves the division between the Afrikaners and the English as well as between whites and blacks. Its young policeman hero (Barry Sullivan) -who, by sinning with a native girl, tragically violates both the law and a relentless social code-stands in as fissuring a relationship to his bigoted Puritan father (Finlay Currie) as to his narrow, unresponsive wife. There are half a dozen sources of voltage and half a dozen reasons for crossed wires; and such a complex of race and religion, of family and sex, cannot...
Susannah proved to be a relentless but gripping tragedy of man's inhumanity to man. The scene is New Hope Valley, Tenn.; the time, today. An evangelist arrives in town with the intention of saving a passel of souls. Town elders go into the woods to find a suitable baptismal stream, are suddenly thunderstruck to see Susannah bathing in the altogether. This vision is enough to convince them that the girl is possessed of the devil, and that it is everybody's duty to cleanse...
...book follows the original's satiric story line but kills its spirit by relentless pursuit of the obvious gag, the single entendre, the rhyme-at-any-cost; e.g., "The air is full of your infidelities," sings Juno. "No? The hell it is," rhymes Jupiter in one of the better couplets. And so it goes, with garter-Sparta, Hades-ladies, loony-Juny (for Juno), until the elegantly frothy music is almost lost between the heavy text and the embarrassed sighs of the audience. Most remarkable fact of all: the man who managed thus to combine the theatrical naivete...
...Thank You, John." Far into the morning the unhappy warriors, bossed by A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther, fanned out in a relentless search for a copy of the plank. At length they got it; when the subcommittee presented its plank to the full platform committee, a civil-rights agent smuggled out a penciled version of the wording. Now Reuther & Co. set earnestly to work. Nothing would suit the band except the insertion of a sentence in the plank reading, "We pledge to carry out these [Supreme Court] decisions," and the addition of a paragraph from the 1952 platform calling...
...relentless camera magnified the trivia and underlined the fluffs, caught the convention's heights and hollows−;and its occasional signs of petulance and flippancy−Truman dressing down a reporter who was badgering him for an interview; Tennessee's Governor Clement hamming it up for photographers; Paul Butler boiling mad over CBS's failure to run a documentary film (see PRESS...