Word: tapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prologue. Time, the early 1930s; place, Manhattan. A series of vignettes depicts the childhood successes of a little blonde from Brooklyn, Belle ("Bubbles") Silverman. At three, she sings and tap-dances on the Saturday morning children's radio program, Uncle Bob's Rainbow House. At seven, she joins the Major Bowes' Capital Family Hour. At eleven, she does 36 weeks as a singing mountain girl on the radio serial Our Gal Sunday, and performs one of radio's first singing commercials, "Rinso White, Rinso White, happy little washday song...
...Corazón Sagrado, a tiny town in the mountains of New Mexico. Unfortunately, Mama can't adjust to Sagrado; the people are Mexicans, Indians and Anglos, the streets are full of donkey manure, and there's scarcely anyone to play bridge with. She begins to tap the stock of sherry in the cellar and becomes a befuddled wino. Along with looking after Mama and completing the process of growing up, Josh has some special problems of his own. Change Lopez, the meanest pachuquito in town, threatens to castrate him; an assignation becomes an embarrassing flop...
...recruitment of top Negro students by prestige universities has not greatly changed the situation in the Negro colleges, Monro said, and "we are glad the new opportunities are opening up." "No matter what Purdue or Harvard does," he said, "we are not even beginning to tap this intelligent manpower and womanpower...
...Into his unlikely comedy Peter Nichols throws snatches of tap-dance routines, jazz and vaudeville turns that leaven the tale of a young British couple (Zena Walker and Donal Donnelly) who camouflage the fragility of their marriage by concentrating their attentions and emotions on their hopelessly spastic daughter...
...Poland are Jews. The Bureaucrats seek to discredit the entire movement, recognizing it as ultimately political in nature, by portraying it as led by Jews--and then branding these Jews as anti-nationalistic. A slight degree of plausibility for these charges, which may be all that is needed to tap the latent anti-Semitism of the Polish masses, is provided by the fact that many of the leaders of the Stalinist regime in Poland before 1956, and indeed many key officials of the secret police, were Jewish...