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Cruelty & Indifference. Joan Williams, 32, now lives in Connecticut, but she remembers her small-town Southern youth with remarkable precision. The Morning and the Evening is a carefully controlled yarn, which has as its hero the village idiot of a small Mississippi town. What seems at first like another Southern Gothic construction, with heartstrings, quickly becomes something more important. No near-helpless, mute man of 40 can arouse an emotion much stronger than pity, but the reactions of neighbors to his helplessness and his own vulnerability to cruelty can tell a great deal about man's eternal debt...
Seven German schoolboys, all 16, all in the same small-town classroom, are called to the colors on the same day: April 27, 1945. The first half of the film expounds the character and background of the boys with a warmth and sensitivity that soon makes the moviegoer care very much what happens to them. Jürgen, son of a rich landowner, is passionately proud of a father fallen for the Fatherland and boyishly eager to inherit his epaulets. Walter is a bit of a bully who takes after his boodle-grabbing, dirndl-lifting father, the local Nazi Kreisleiter...
United States Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Vincent Price and Betsy Palmer star in "Shame the Devil," a piece about the suppression of a salacious bestseller in a small-town library...
...protested, a committee that will not publish what a large number of its members suggested--a recommendation that the Connally Amendment be repealed--is not likely to broadcast anything else of much specific value. Indeed, the committee has produced nearly nothing; its report reads like the speech of a small-town politician who knows very little about the workings of the large affairs of greater men, but who feels obliged to make a few grand-sounding (but actually not very eloquent) remarks about them. He tells his constituency that he is for free speech, integration, education, and all that sort...
Bowling, which has been regarded by big-city sophisticates as a small-town or suburban sport, invaded Manhattan last week with a bang. The Grand Central Bowl Co. announced it will build a $3,000,000 bowling center at Grand Central Terminal in the airspace over the 42nd Street waiting room...