Word: acted
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...vote of 7 to 2 that the terminal restaurant, even though privately owned, was an integral part of the busline's services. "Interstate passengers have to eat," observed the Supreme Court, and they have a right to expect service "without discrimination prohibited by the Interstate Commerce Act...
...anxious was the Supreme Court to make sure that its decision would not reach too far, it took the trouble to specify about limitations. "We are not holding," wrote Justice Hugo Black for the majority, "that every time a bus stops at a wholly independent roadside restaurant the act applies." But even this limited legal victory was gratifying to the N.A.A.C.P. Said a spokesman for the organization: "I assume it will mean an end to one more sector of embarrassment and second-class treatment for Negro travelers...
...pilot and LIFE correspondent. His technique of candid-camera closeups and of eliminating an on-screen commentator is not new, but he uses it more deliberately and effectively than any TV show has before. Drew employs two-man crews (one man handles camera, one sound, and both also act as reporters and editors) instead of the usual unwieldy task force. Says Drew: "We would not move in with our lights and cameras and convert a worker's shack into a television studio. That way you simply don't get a feeling of reality." Using natural lighting, a stripped...
...Casey found, if no better materials for tragedy, then an apter moment. Under the stress of turbulent historic events, amid the gunfire and bloodshed of the 1916 Easter Rebellion, O'Casey could release his anger and compassion alike, could expose the failings of his compatriots in the very act of exhibiting the fortitude. The immemorial heartbreak of For men must work and women must weep was to be mixed with a colder appraisal of the men themselves. They stand forth half-cocked and high-talking patriots, revolver in holster and glass in hand, while slum poverty stares...
...Sinclair-Gieben says his use of hypnosis to cure severe asthma does not necessarily show the ailment to be psychological in origin. Many asthma victims act sicker than they really are, but the Scottish patient was a "welladjusted individual" who displayed "no signs of psychiatric breakdown." Rather, says Sinclair-Gieben, it shows that hypnosis can exert a physical as well as psychological effect: "It is widely believed that conditions responding to hypnosis must of necessity be wholly psychologically determined. However, in other conditions-for example, organic pain and warts-it has been demonstrated that hypnosis can influence an accepted physical...