Word: blackboarding
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...this time, however, Rock n Roll needed little encouragement. Americans took to it as they had to Davy Crockett. When the movie called Blackboard Jungle appeared with music by Bill Haley and his comets, teenagers all over the country had begun to "Rock Around the Clock." Another film with Sheree North's controversial interpretation of Rock n Roll was followed by a sharp rise in the "juvenile delinquency" rate, and subsequent protests from law enforcement agencies. To no avail. Rock n Roll shows signs of lasting...
TIME made rather unfortunate use of the adjective "heavyhanded" in applying it to MGM's portrayal of teen-age brutality in big-city schools. It might better have been applied to both Mrs. Luce's decision to boycott the film Blackboard Jungle, or TIME'S defense of her act. Rather than be shocked ai American school conditions, be they typical or not, Europeans must have wondered at a humorless Government always ready to trumpet its virtues but equally ready with a whitewash brush for its vices...
...right places. Glenn Ford, as the honest and sometimes bewildered lawyer, and Arthur Kennedy, as the smooth Communist manipulator, are both topnotch. Dorothy McGuire is just right as the reformed fellow-traveling secretary who regretfully looks on as Ford gets caught in the snare; Rafael Campos (The Blackboard Jungle) is a good Angel. And the picture has another attraction: filmed in black and white for a screen of much less than the common contemporary width, it can be comfortably watched by people who do not have wall eyes...
After that, the festival's sponsors chose to drop Blackboard from the program. But MGM's Dore Schary raged: "What Ambassador Luce has done represents flagrant political censorship." Italy's Communists, of course, agreed, and, in the ensuing verbal brouhaha, sight was lost of the fact that no censorship had been imposed by either the Italian or U.S. governments. All that had happened was that Europeans had been informed that not all Americans are content to receive their mail addressed to "Tobacco Road...
...have no credit limits.) Once the credit is granted, the player places his bet by phone, telegram or mail. One squad of clerks makes sure the wager was received or postmarked before race time, then other clerks, sitting in the huge horse room, check each bet against the enormous blackboard that carries race results from all over England. The betting week closes Friday night; by Monday morning every client either receives his check for winnings or, more likely, his bill in a plain envelope...