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...Supreme Court edict outlawing segregation in public schools knocks the hell out of Jim Crow and makes all other forms of segregation and discrimination look sillier than ever. TIME'S March 24 article on the ruling should be read by every American ... It is so important now that all citizens of the U.S. be made aware of the fact that the Negro is a man, a citizen of equal rank, and that two-thirds of mankind's people are dark-skinned, and they are watching and gauging America in terms of her treatment of the Negro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 14, 1954 | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

...Blasé (Phil Harris; Victor). A collection of ditties grunted by the most expressive monotone on records. In the name tune, and such oldies as Stars Fell on Alabama, he develops effortlessly all the sillier qualities of pop-song rhymes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, may 3, 1954 | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

...While he and the post swayed in unison, Boston police swung into action. A Keystone Cops chase with a Sonnet style pile-up at the finish followed, and as the drunk was led from the field it was touch and go as to whether he or the police looked sillier...

Author: By John A. Pope, | Title: Goal-Post Menders Have Weekly Job | 10/23/1953 | See Source »

...United Artists) has a head start over most Hollywood comedies: an original idea with some satiric bite. But it soon grows painfully clear that the idea has fallen into the wrong hands. Setting out to make radio's giveaway craze look silly, the picture winds up looking even sillier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 8, 1950 | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

...Laughton squared off over Sir Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (TIME, June 28). Bette agreed with Hearstling Jimmy Starr who said he "didn't like" the movie and that "I'm bored with Shakespeare." Pronounced Laughton: "It saddens me that Hollywood should be made to look even sillier than ever by one of its prominent artists . . . That I have not seen Sir Laurence Olivier's Hamlet is irrelevant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Voice of Experience | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

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