Word: sort
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dirty Digs." Nothing seems too trifling to pink a sensibility. NBC's files contain a letter in behalf of leather-jacket manufacturers, protesting the jacket's use as "a sort of TV shorthand" for juvenile hoodlums. In Kansas the Independence Reporter ran an editorial accusing the networks of airing "dirty little nonsensical digs" at Kansas. Wrote a Pittsburgh physician: "Why is it that whenever a TV situation calls for a pharmacist he is always a doddering old incompetent?" Complained a Las Vegas waitress: "Something [should] be done about always depicting a waitress as a hardboiled, gum-chewing, illiterate...
...effect, then ... is the equating of the Church with a stock character out of Central Casting to be trotted out at will and bedecked as a sort of ecclesiastical Liberace for crassly commercial purposes. In so doing, not one jot is added to the stature of the Church or its mission in the world, a chore, incidentally, reserved not to Hollywood but to the Holy Ghost. Let us devoutly hope that the cassock and habit may enjoy eternal rest from moviedom's commercialism, and pray that they may never decide to shoot St. Augustine's Confessions with George...
...what became of her. She disappears into a settlement house to devote her shattered life to teaching music to underprivileged children. Even those who adore youngsters blindly may wince at the subsequent digression into a joyous interracial sea of gap-toothed, freckled faces, cutely squalling songs off-key-the sort of kiddies' night program that could break up a P.T.A. meeting. When Cary and Deborah at last clinch again on Christmas Day, it is a miracle that the juvenile choir does not burst in shrieking Away in a Manger...
Nothing of the sort happens, and Elaine finally leads her Egyptian officer back to London at the end of her typewriter ribbon. Yehia is happy with his revolution (it may be a dictatorship, he concedes, but it is a "dictatorship by Egyptians") and becomes military attaché in London, where he and Elaine melt into a clinch as the organ of a nonconformist chapel thunders through the wall of her flat...
Catholic Taste. In Spring Creek, Pa., the sheriff was trying to deduce what sort of thieves they were who robbed Andrew Szewczuk of 1) 300 lbs. of frozen beef, 2) 1,000 phonograph records, 3) 40 gallons of paint, 4) a hot-water tank, 5) a grass seeder, 6) a leather jacket, 7) a pair of roller skates, and 8) some false-teeth powder...