Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Room for Maneuver. This fact gives a hollow ring to arguments of "moderate" Southerners when they protest against federal intervention and demand to be allowed "to work this thing out our own way." Already the Supreme Court's school desegregation decision has accomplished more toward giving first-class citizenship to U.S. Negroes than anything since the Emancipation Proclamation. It is true that no public secondary schools have as yet been desegregated in eight of the Southern states with the largest percentage of Negro citizens, i.e., Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. It is also...
...reprisals because of mob action against inspectors. "I talked until my throat was so sore that I was spitting blood," says Poujade. In its first year, Poujade's Union for the Defense of Shopkeepers and Artisans (UDCA) organized 500 ''oppositions" to tax collectors, recruited priests to ring church bells as warnings of inspectors approaching. When delinquent taxpayers were seized, Poujade packed the auctions to buy back their belongings for next to nothing (1? for a sofa, ½? for a radio). Sometimes Poujadists roughed up tax inspectors to discourage their zeal. Soon Poujade could boast: "In 70 departments...
...particular, shows its greasepaint complexion on the screen. Billy Bigelow (Gordon MacRae) is a carnival pitchman, and what he pitches best of all is woo. Underneath his brattitude, of course, Billy is a real home-cookin' kid-just the sort of wild bull that really wants a wedding ring in his nose. And, of course, he gets one. He chases a fresh-faced little New England factory girl (Shirley Jones) so hard that she catches him. Billy has lost his carnival job, but he is too big a man to take work on a filthy herring boat-though...
...Ring Lardner who made the first serious attempt in fiction to find out if baseball players are people. His answer in the You Know Me, Al stories could be boiled down to yes, with reservations. Now, 40 years later, both sportswriters and novelists seem to have fewer reservations. In Bernard Malamud's The Natural (TIME, Sept. 8, 1952), there was the mystical intimation that major-leaguers might even have souls. In Bang the Drum Slowly, Novelist Mark (The Southpaw) Harris modestly stays closer to the bag. Look, he says, they are human, and their hearts can hurt as much...
...more than a touch of locker-room obscenity. If the characters are no more than onedimensional, it is a dimension that Harris has measured with his heart as well as his eye and ear. It is true that Author Harris' major success lies in stirring up reminders of Ring Lardner, but it is equally true that not many people now writing can do that much...