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...attitude of the Chicago City Club toward identification of Negroes as such in news reporting [TIME, Oct. 9] reveals a patronizing sort of bigotry of which the civic-minded members themselves probably are unaware...
...know that there was a strange land across the seas where they spoke some sort of English in rather an odd accent. I knew that the inhabitants of this vague country performed marriages on flagpoles. But apart from that you did not count. England was the country that all we Europeans loved and admired. We clothed our bodies in British clothes and fed our minds with the words of British intellectuals. It was smart to read British newspapers, and we sincerely enjoyed such nice magazines as Nash's and the Strand. If we did see some American newspapers...
...Harvard ate that you to a football game, to a cocktail party after the game, to a Boston restaurant like Looke Obers for dinner, sometimes, and then to his fraternity or a movie in Cambridge. Not that I don't "date" Harvard boys, but a Harvard weekend can be sort of dull compared to some I've been on. They say a lot of things about Harvard boys, although I don't really believe most of them. Some Harvard boys are just a nice as can be, but it takes a Dartmouth boy to really bring out my "sprit...
Kirk Douglas is competent as the "gentleman caller" but is outclassed by Miss Lawrence, Miss Wyman, and Mr. Kennedy and, whereas in the play the caller was a doltish sort of a fellow putting on an act, he emerges as a bright, slick young man in the screen version. Somehow the original caller was more consistent with Williams' description of the entire work "a picture of a fundamentally enslaved section of American society. . . living in huge buildings always burning with the slow implacable fires of human desperation...
Without any doubt "The Lady's Not For Burning" is the product of a fresh, uninhibited, and exceedingly clever mind. The play is fascinating comedy of the purest sort...