Word: blackboarding
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...well-manicured Tennessee hand into a whole fistful of investigations. As the head of a subcommittee charged with investigating juvenile delinquency, he has traveled to New York to study the injurious effect of pornographic literature upon teenagers, and to Los Angeles to criticize various motion pictures, e.g., Blackboard Jungle, for stressing sex and violence. As the head of another subcommittee, he has pondered how the U.S. can save itself from hydrogen demolition. He has held hearings on the Bricker Amendment, and as the chairman of still another subcommittee, he has kept the ball rolling against the Dixon-Yates power contract...
...because it happens to be raining outside) to "Eye Shadow" (i.e., the cosmetics of ancient Egypt). Recently, he recommended that his students go to see the movie, The Egyptian, as "an illuminating pictorial explanation of the period we are discussing." Thereupon, he swung around to the blackboard, jotted down the time of every showing...
Hollywood's top production bosses solemnly testified that movies could not realistically exclude' sex and violence, but far from inspiring juvenile crime, films often combatted it by portraying its ugly consequences, thus arousing public zeal for reform. MGM's Dore Schary argued that his Blackboard Jungle, condemned by Critic Mooring, did not "accelerate" delinquency but "insulated" against it. The family itself, testified Paramount's Y. Frank Freeman, is delinquency's chief hotbed, and "an old-fashioned hickory stick" is the remedy. Taken to task for the violence dished out in Warner's unreleased juvenile...
...younger boy at knife point), proudly announced that he had not been in school since April. He was also apparently proud of the stabbing. When photographers snapped his picture, it was of just one more arrogant, smirking young hoodlum who knows no law but that of the blackboard jungle. Said seriously injured Teacher O'Tarrell, when asked why he had not defended himself against Vargas: "We have orders not to strike them...
...Atlanta, in the city's first test of movie censorship since the Supreme Court's ruling against New York and Ohio censors last year, Loew's Inc. asked an injunction against any future ban on Blackboard Jungle (currently ranking sixth in box office receipts-see above). Loew's also asked the court to rule that Atlanta Censor Mrs. Christine Smith Gilliam acted improperly in banning the film on grounds that it was "immoral, obscene, licentious and will adversely affect the peace, health, morals and good order of the city...