Word: tellingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cries for "Eek" followed him everywhere. The Scots came for miles to cheer him, even though he had slipped into Prestwick Airport only for a weekend's golf and relaxation. As he slowed down at week's end to reflect on the unprecedented tour, reporters could tell that he was richly happy and well pleased with the whole thing...
...have three dirty words: race, creed and color. I'm not going to regulate people's mores . . . not even the winos'." As for the sound of the bongos, Matthews confessed that he was helpless to stop it. "Sure bongo drums are loud, but my friends tell me that a bongo is a way of dissolving your antagonisms toward other people...
...oppose the forces of repression and to work for understanding. [This leads to] the discovery that the patient or client has been, in effect, too good, that he has within him impulses. especially those of lust and hostility, which he has been unnecessarily inhibiting. And health, we tell him, lies in recognizing and expressing these impulses...
...usual, Hollywood fired back in all directions. Sounding as if any criticism amounted to outright censorship, Columbia Vice President Sam Briskin pulled the trigger before he even saw the enemy. No individual or group, he cried, has a right to censor the industry. "The public will soon enough tell us what they want and don't want...
...example. No sooner was Augustana Lutheran Heimrich's charge made public than up stepped the Rev. H. K. Rasbach, American Lutheran and a member of the Film Board Committee, to say: "It is decidedly unChristian, after a man has put millions of dollars into a picture, to tell people not to see it. We want the industry to police itself." To that, Hollywood said a loud "Amen," and waited to see what happens next...