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...Minority Leader William Knowland of California and Assistant Majority Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana. Such an amendment, said Assistant Attorney General Warren Olney III, would "emasculate the whole bill." Olney's choice of words, retorted Southerners, merely proved that the original intention of the bill was to rape the South. With those salvos, the big guns of the civil rights bill began booming this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...sort of sacred when Frank Merriwell went to Yale. There have been changes since. Cramming on summer vacation from Hawley School, A.D. 1935, future Yaleman McGough, G. F. turned to future Yaleman Baxter, C. K. and said: "Now, about this sister of yours, Baxter. Which does she prefer, rape or seduction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Long Way Home | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...elementary." Tennessee Williams and Erskine Caldwell are the only U.S. authors whom the French consider truly American, and their popularity is based on the public expectations that "there will certainly be on the stage a girl who will get undressed, or make someone undress her, or better still, rape her, which in American means sleep with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Resistance Movement | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...intensity of Titus is often enormous, and not at all due only to murder and rape. Some of the murders become tragedies...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: Titus Andronicus | 4/12/1957 | See Source »

...admirable. The director, Roger Graef, treats horror boldly and hardly ever sacrifices his characters to a mere spectacular surface. Although his first act is occasionally loose, his later treatment is strong. The brilliantly ironic scene in which the vicious empress and her two sons visit Titus disguised as Revenge, Rape, and Murder is directed superbly. Lit in dim red and blue, which effectively decreases the awkward closeness to the audience, the scene shows excellent interplay among the enemies as Titus feigns madness and delicately winds revenge around his visitors...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: Titus Andronicus | 4/12/1957 | See Source »

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