Word: slumming
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...anti-white terns have been deleted in Boston and elsewhere). But where "Home of the Brave" and other movies dealt with discrimination and persecution, and found them to have personal solutions, "No Way Out" deals with group conflict and war. For members of opposing armies--Niggertown and the white slum of Beaver Canal--there are no individual solutions...
...race riot. As an individual or a type, Biddle would seem psychopathic; instead, his role in the film is a symbolic, gathering behind one grinning mask all the virulence of Beaver Canal. In the only role of individuality, Linda Darnell is a slattern trying to escape from her slum background, who betrays and then rescues the Negro doctor (Stephen Poitier) accused of murdering Biddle's brother...
Taken together, the two big scenes are profoundly Shavian. In the first, the college-bred daughter understands and forgives her slum-born mother for having made a living out of brothels. In the second, she denounces her mother for making a fortune out of them. As a notorious woman's daughter, Vivie is naturally stiff-necked and stern in judgment; as a bad woman who has tried to be a good mother, Kitty Warren is naturally sentimental and defensive. Their personal relationship-beyond all considerations of economics or ethics-is irreconcilable. Few Broadway playwrights now in full bloom would...
...life of contented students were good health and congenial playmates. Sorokin contends, "The absence of these two (loving family and playmates) cannot be compensated for by wealth . . . or any of the material values. If they are present, even the children of a poor family, living in a slum district, can be happy...
Died. Edward Joseph Kelly, 74, four-term mayor of Chicago, shrewdest of the four big Democratic city bosses of the last generation;* of a heart attack; in Chicago. Born in a tough "Back of the Yards" slum, roughhewn Ed Kelly was a master of the oratorical foot-in-the-mouth. He once addressed Admiral William Halsey as "Alderman Halsey," introduced the State Department's protocol expert as "chief of portico," lauded Scott Lucas (in a speech nominating him for Vice President of the U.S.) for being "a member of no thinking group." But he had the instincts...