Word: twistings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terming the movie 'Oliver Twist' "sensitive and powerful," Mr. Friedrich offers no excuse for not prohibiting such a picture in America. Nor is the fact that Bill Sykes is as villainous as Fagin any reason to deny the poisonous hate expressed in the picture. For it is well-known that the majority group need never fear lest one of its members misbehave; whilst the persecuted minority is always categorized by the behavior of its worst rather than best, members...
When movies are censored, that is bearable: when they are excluded it ceases to be so. We often do not even hear of these movies. One of which we did hear was "Oliver Twist," a powerful and sensitive work of cinematic art. This was banned on the basis of vigorous protests by a Jewish group. That these protests were genuine and deep-felt was shown by the riots which this same movie evoked in Germany among the Jewish...
...capable of ejecting so huge or so sudden a flood of tears, and of drying it up a second later in such gales of laughter. Once, at the funeral of a beloved friend on a rainy day, Dickens found himself close to Cartoonist George Cruikshank (who illustrated Oliver Twist) and became fascinated by the artist's "enormous whiskers, which straggle all down his throat in such weather [looking] like a partially unravelled bird's-nest." As Dickens explained himself later, he was "penetrated with sorrow" for the family of the dead but, at the same time, threatened with...
...concerts this year will have a new twist to them. Instead of the usual two the Glee Club has scheduled three of its given on successive days as in past years, songfests extending through the three weeks of the reading period. The second will fall a week from tonight, and the third in two weeks...
...deciding whether its ends justify killing innocent people, are presented with great power. But these high points are not frequent enough to make "We Were Strangers" the artistically fine movie it tries to be. The film lacks any real characterizations, concentrating on its plot. This ends in an ironical twist which is not handled smoothly enough to be completely effective...