Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reader who wants to know from a review only if the film is worth seeing, Carmen Jones presents no problem: see the picture. It is an experiment and it is largely unsuccessful. But even its failings are unique; you may touch quickly on every rough edge, you may commiserate with the memory of Bizet. You will probably not regret, however, having seen Carmen Jones...
...Federal Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., sometimes called "the country club," is also a rough place, the scene of several recent beatings and sluggings and the home of several gangland veterans of a 1952 riot at the Chillicothe, Ohio prison. Last week one, or two, or three Lewisburg inmates crept into a third-floor, four-man cell and swung a brick in a knotted white sock down on the head of a sleeping man. The victim: William Walter Remington, B.A., Phi Beta Kappa (Dartmouth), M.A. (Columbia), and convicted perjurer...
...modern society Dr. Lindner sees "nothing which does not require the young to conform, to adjust, to submit." Along with religion and education he lumps social work, which aims to smooth rough-edged personalities so that they will not rub too harshly on their fellows; also philosophy, recreation and pediatrics: "Each is infused with the rot-producing idea that the salvation of the individual, and so of society, depends upon conformity and adjustment." Thus, in harsher terms, rebellious Psychologist Lindner reaches much the same diagnosis as Social Scientist David Riesman (TIME, Sept. 27), who calls the pattern of the times...
...industrial relations director, and later salesman. In 1931, he persuaded the late Al Smith to put Bausch & Lomb coin-operated telescopes atop the Empire State Building. In 1935 he was made sales vice president. As president Hallauer's biggest job will be to meet the rough competition from West German and other foreign optical-instrument makers...
...clear, succinct prose. One of the many major differences between them was that Shaw believed style to be a byproduct of sincerity, while Wilde insisted that style alone could create sincerity. It was in Shaw's nature to be a teetotaler, to dress in all the sincerity of rough Jaeger woolens, to stand on a soapbox and preach rebellion in pouring rain. Wilde made it his duty to be "a flaneur, a dandy, a man of fashion," and to preach revolution only in the best London drawing rooms. Shaw said bluntly: "All great truths begin as blasphemies," while Wilde...