Word: twistings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With reference to the article "AntiSemitic Twist?" [TIME, Oct. 4], am I to believe that minority groups are now attempting to censor and to prohibit the presentation of certain [cinema] classics, particularly English classics...
...trust that we in the U.S. shall soon be able to see Oliver Twist at our local movie theaters...
When Charles Dickens published his second novel, Oliver Twist, in 1838, no loud cries of "anti-Semitism!" were raised -though one of the principal characters in the book was a "villainous-looking and repulsive" old Jew named Fagin. Last week there was a chorus of loud cries in the U.S.* over the new movie version of Oliver Twist...
...Toronto, where Oliver Twist had been showing for three weeks, the theater manager noted little comment against Fagin, no unfavorable publicity, no effect on business. The Toronto Jewish Congress called on Rank representatives to complain, but later decided to drop the matter. "We feel," one was quoted as saying, that an Englishman has just as much right to complain about Bill Sikes." Could Rank quiet the din by reshooting some scenes in the $1,600,000 picture? It seemed impractical; there were too many shots of Fagin, and some members of the cast had scattered. Last week Rank announced that...
...will make," he said, "will not set faction against faction, group against group. They will aim to join us together in a more perfect union." Ticking off the nation's ills-high prices, housing, racial discrimination-Dewey echoed Warren's sweet reasonableness and added a sly twist of his own. "Some of these unhappy conditions are the result of circumstances beyond the control of any government. Any fair-minded person would agree that others are merely the result of the Administration's lack of judgment, or of faith in our people. Only part are deliberately caused...