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...movies of today are without a doubt 90% responsible for the immorality, crime and all other complaints directed at teenagers. It is truly a shame to cor rupt the characters and minds of growing future citizens of this wonderful United States of America for the sake of a financial gain to a group of-shall we say -artists...
...sections and labs. Or, to relieve the bottle-neck slightly, Economics 1 might be shifted to another time; since 85 percent of the course is given in sections which meet at various times, the hour of the few lectures could easily be changed. It is a shame to have so many of the best courses in the college compete with each other...
...kidnaping-like the theft of touring Louvre treasures early this year -was one more brazen attempt by the F.A.L.N. to shame the pro-West government of President Rómulo Betancourt. In this it succeeded; it also succeeded in exposing the woefully inefficient and almost comic condition of the Caracas police force...
...decreed that all Brazilian workers should receive a similar Christmas gift. The dockers reasoned that this entitled them to another bonus; the port concessionaire at Santos said no. Dockmen also demanded a 30-day paid vacation each year, full pay for days they are on strike, and a 20% "shame" bonus for hefting such cargoes as toilet bowls and sanitary napkins. After three days' idleness, they settled for a 20% pay boost, as well as regular pay for the three days' work they missed...
Thus one is unavoidably engaged by the specifically "Negro" aspects of the story: Jim's sister's speeches about "fighting for our race;" Jim's inner torment over being the only Negro in his law school class; Ella's shame at having married a Negro. O'Neill's basic theme, the passionately destructive relationship between Ella and Jim, cannot help but be obscured by the incidental racial questions...