Word: vile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prepped in Kansas City and Montreal before putting on a Brooklyn uniform to become at 28 big-league baseball's first Negro player. To prepare him, his mentor Branch Rickey called him into his office one day, cursed him, swung at him, then spat at him a particularly vile name. "What do you do now, Jackie?" Rickey asked. Robinson replied: "Mr. Rickey, I guess I turn the other cheek." For the next couple of years he played superlative baseball while snaffling his hot, competitive temper under the taunts and slurs of his opponents and even some of his teammates...
...appears, was a big-moola blackmailer. Mitchum chases (and is chased) all over Europe before he even digs up this sore-thumb fact, while the blackmail victims-quislings who never quisled because Hitler never got around to invading their countries-earnestly try to bump Mitchum off their vile, traitorous scent. In all, Foreign Intrigue rates as the murkiest black-and-white color film of the year, lacking only a chase through sewers to lend it a more poignant aroma...
...California, offer radio listeners and TViewers a number of many-splendored things in return. Faith Healer Leroy Kopp offers "instantaneous and gradual healing" over Los Angeles' KGER. Brother Aubrey Lee asks ailing listeners to place their hands on their radio sets while he intones: "We rebuke that vile disease. Satan, take your vile disease from that body. God bless everyone in the household, including old grandma or granddad with that old rheumatism." Inducements offered by others: a plastic cross that glows in the dark ("the glow of God's presence") and, for a certain sum, of course...
With four or five most vile and ragged foils...
Unfortunately, A House on the Rhine is termite-ridden with bygone clichés ("Don't bring her into this vile business. She's made of other clay"). But Author Faviell's dramatic documentation of the lawless legacy of the war and "the clash of old and new values in the mind of young Germany has the authority of her seven years of on-the-spot observation as the wife of a British official. Read simply as social prophecy, this novel disturbs with the suggestion that the seeds of a whole generation may already have been planted...