Word: crackers
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...that say all the right things but obviously do not understand what they mean. It says that war is hell, that love is holy, that color is only skin-deep, that insincerity is the root of all evil. But it says all these things as a parrot requests a cracker, by rote and without conviction ; and instead of conviction, the picture offers a tediously sentimental farewell to arms and a rather painful exhibition of the sort of placebo liberalism that finds no difficulty in accepting racial equality-provided, of course, that the Negroes in question are well educated, successful...
...Manhattan to ballyhoo the film version of his often-belittled, sometime-banned (still taboo in Massachusetts) bestselling (more than 8,000,000 copies) novel, God's Little Acre, earthy Novelist Erskine Caldwell hopscotched between TV appearances, radio talks and press interviews. Once an oversexed tale about Georgia crackers, the tidied-up movie version will glow with the Motion Picture Association of America's seal of purity. Says onetime Georgia Cracker Caldwell: "Why not? It's a family picture...
Mink in Hi-Fi (Monique Van Vooren; RCA Victor). Belgian-born Show Girl Van Vooren's voice has the tinny resonance of a sound heard through a drainpipe, and her accent in English is an astonishing blend of Gaul and Georgia Cracker: "Laak a queen in the royal foah postah . . . Ah can face zat lovely place called bed." The combination is disastrous in the slow, sexy register, but in such shouting numbers as Le Rififi and My Man Is Good, V.V. carries the show on muscle alone...
After a whirlwind of paperwork, Ike flew with Mamie to Augusta at week's end, where-between alternate engagements at the links and in his office-he munched (in the Kelly green coat of the exclusive Augusta National Golf Club) crackers from the "Eisenhower Cracker Barrel," a pine-wooded whimsical memento contributed by Treasury ex-Secretary George Humphrey. Rising to the folksiness of the occasion, Ike said between munches, "There'll be no trouble from here on out for the world...
Mirth seemed inappropriate; the nation turned to anger. The Government, always an available whipping-boy, again bent over to receive the lash. Righteous indignation rose to the occasion. Scientists, soldiers, journalists, and cracker-barrel sages fired their salvos at the nearest targets. Though the smoke hasn't yet lifted, it isn't difficult to see that the army has been fighting only itself...