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Incalculable Impact. The case at issue involved none other than the 1962 swindling conviction of Billie Sol Estes, whose trial in a Texas state court was televised over his objections. Justice Tom Clark, reversing Estes' conviction,* declared that TV smuggles an "irrelevant factor" into the courtroom that may poison the atmosphere of the trial and therefore denies the defendant's right to due process of law under the 14th Amendment. Among points he cited...
Lumet's parallel between Harlem and the concentration camp creates the impact of the film. Nazemann is constantly seen behind the pawnbroker's cage dealing with his customers as through the prison fence. The cage also symbolizes his isolation, emphasized by Lumet's close-up shots of Nazemann locking himself in and out. Inside the cage he is the Nazi officer responding to human misery with utter callousness, the Jew playing persecutor. But when a destitute woman enters to sell her wedding ring, he cannot avoid his own memories, shown as flashbacks, of German soldiers tearing gold rings from...
...house (Wilfred Funk, Inc.). He tried his hand at light verse, drew up a list of the ten most beautiful words in the English language (dawn, hush, lullaby, murmuring, tranquil, mist, luminous, chimes, golden, melody) and the ten most overworked (okay, terrific, lousy, definitely, racket, gal, honey, swell, contact, impact'). He even compiled a canine dictionary of 204 words that every well-bred dog should understand, ranging from a basic siccum to slippers and ice cream...
Through Jewish Lenses. It may be that too many U.S. Jews are indolent and unschooled in their spiritual heritage, Katz admitted; nonetheless, the impact of Judaism on U.S. culture is so prevalent that "it is a popular pastime to probe the world through Jewish lenses," typically in a musical like Broadway's Fiddler on the Roof. For proof of Jew ish vitality throughout the world, he cited B'nai B'rith's 26% gain in operating finances since the last convention, and the presence of its educational Hillel Foundation on 253 campuses, with 268 more schools...
...performances there and 1,002 more on the road. Its Negro cast spoke in outrageous dialect: "Gangway for de Lawd!" Black angels held fish fries in Heaven and dispensed 10? seegars to newcomers. It might jar contemporary liberals, but Pastures in its day had all the impact of a Negro spiritual; it won the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for drama...