Word: taproot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Taproot in Tradition. To provide stories for these heroes and for their dozens of less famous fellows. Hollywood keeps 100 or so writers busy. (One of them, Frank Gruber. once wrote four scripts in four days.) A great many of the shows have shoddy plots, ludicrous situations. They are "shot from the hip," as one director puts it, in three days or less, "take what you get." Studio filmed for the most part, they are ironically known in the trade as "four-wall westerns-as big as all indoors." It hardly seems the sort of climate in which creativity could...
...despite all its vulgar errors and commercial excrescences, the western story has given television something that it seriously lacked: a taproot in the American tradition, a meaning beyond the moment. And television has given the western story, the youngest and most prodigiously alive and kicking of the world's mythologies, a fresh chance to express itself, and to change with the times...
...more basic than the questions of amount and segregation, is the dire shortage of teachers. Though intimately connected with school construction, it is badly neglected in the President's proposals. His only offering is "my earnest hope that ... the states and communities will give increasing attention to this taproot of all education ..." It is good to be earnest, but far more important to enact legislation and allocate funds when the nation's schools are short 180,000 teachers. The shortage of teachers and trained personnel can be met only by the federal government. "States and communities" are either unable...
...unorganized than the C.I.O., and in so doing, it managed to solve in many multi-craft industries its old problem of adjustment to the labor structure of the modern factory. The C.I.O. had the brains and the flash, but the A.F.L. had a better connection with the deep taproot of the U.S. labor movement. The older organization embodied the spirit of traditional American unionism-realistic, unaffected by doctrinaire theses, and responsive to the actual conditions of U.S. business with which it had evolved...
...Earrings of Madame De (Franco-London; Arlan Pictures). Director Max Ophuls has drawn on the long European tradition, as if at a taproot through time, to nourish this dainty, completely artificial floret. It is a literary picture, plainly enough, but it is also not much less than a perfect one, a new cinema classic. Luckily, too, the classic should soon be fairly popular in the U.S., even though it is spoken in French (with English subtitles). Two of its players, Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux, are world-famed, and a third, Vittorio De Sica, is an Italian matinee idol...