Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scene is set quickly: "The mill owners in the United States exploit the workers and especially the Negro workers. They teach the white people to hate the coloured workers...
...long line of show people, went on the road with her Italian-comedienne mother as a dancer at the age of five. Caterina is the youngest of four children, was born in Paris where the family now makes its comfortable home. There, after World War II, Caterina began to exploit her pretty voice, learned the American jazz style from recordings by Louis Armstrong, Ethel Waters and Billie Holiday. By 1952, Caterina had married a German juggler named Eric van Aro, now lives in West Germany as a popular recording artist and movie actress. Her singing style has settled into...
...movie is the excellent quality of the acting on the part of all the principal performers. Gary Cooper, in the part of the father, is not an actor noted for the range of emotions which he can project, but this time he has found a part which can exploit his taciturn talents. He manages to suggest the battle going on in his character's soul, and a suggestion is really all the script requires. Dorothy McGuire, as the mother, must, on the other hand, show such divergent feelings as straight-laced devotion to duty and strong love for her family...
...canvassing, some workers participated in an opinion poll of Tenth District voters, to determine what issues Holtz might use to best advantage in his campaign there. The poll, prepared by Dr. Ithiel Pool, an MIT professor, is similar to the one used in California to permit Adlai Stevenson to exploit the most significant problems in his primary fight with Senator Estes Kefauver...
...What the demonstration underlined for Nehru, however. was the real challenge of India's thousands of high-school and university students. Frustrated, their future inhibited, by India's mounting unemployment, they dabble in politics for lack of other preoccupations, are easy prey for anyone who wants to exploit their eagerness to participate in a new India in which they have yet to find their place...