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Black Memories. Prison officials gave Carlo a new suit, shoes, shirt, and a tie which he found he had forgotten how to knot. For his labor during his 19 years, one month and 28 days of imprisonment, the warden handed him 10,360 lire (about $16). Italian law gave him no other claim against the government. "I'm as poor as Job," said Carlo. "I must find work." Back in Marzano di Nola last week, Carlo greeted his relatives but refused to stay. "I want to get away from these black memories," he said...
...with visions of respectability. (Where the book bluntly called the girl a whore, the film manages to make the point by including her in some of the most realistic brothel scenes ever splattered on the face of the screen.) There is by contrast the fierce meeting of First Sergeant Warden and the captain's wife, two people who think they know what they need and almost make life give it to them. And fatally, there is the story of Private Maggio, Prew's friend, who is beaten to death in the "stockade" by Fatso, the brutal captain...
Burt Lancaster as Sergeant Warden is the model of a man among men, absolutely convincing in an instinctive awareness of the subtle, elaborate structure of force and honor on which a male society is based. His big love scene with the captain's wife will shake a lot of teeth loose during the next few months...
...prison students, trains a critical eye on their copy or gives a lecture on current events, and then throws the session open to informal questions. The meetings are usually pretty lively. Howland finds the prisoners are quick to ask questions, eager to argue. In a recent letter to me, Warden W. H. Hiatt summed up the three years of Howland's classes: "He has provided wholesome tonic by giving vital Howland impetus to realistic thinking about social, economic and political topics...
Civil Servant. In Mountjoy, Ont., Wilf Perreault, fed up, resigned from his job as the town's police chief, fire warden, dogcatcher, tax collector, poundkeeper, building inspector, liquor inspector, fence viewer, cemetery inspector, weight inspector and school attendance officer...