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...painting is the fact that it is obviously rooted in reality. The frail figure of 72-year-old Mrs. Merle Davis James is just as Wyeth saw her last summer in her house a mile from Wyeth's summer place in Gushing, Me. Stricken successively with a severe muscular disease, a heart attack and pneumonia, Mrs. James had finally climbed out from under an oxygen tent, snapped at the nurse, "All this is ridiculous." Wyeth, impressed and moved by her spirit and courage, set out to paint her during her twice-daily rest periods...
...Educational or uplift records such as The Alphabet Song, Counting Song (Cricket), good-neighbor songs, meet-the-orches-tra productions, and stories accompanied by adulterated symphonic scores, e.g., Ludwig Bemelmans' Madeline (RCA Victor). ¶ Special songs, which too often turn out to be inoffensive words set to poverty-stricken pop rhythms, or sugar-coated with a moral, as in Apple on a Stick (moral: share the goodies...
...cities like Chicago have for years tried to integrate blind children into regular classes, but most states have relied on special residential schools, where the blind live and learn only among their own kind. Then, in the 1940s, hundreds of premature infants, though saved by incubators, were stricken with retrolental fibroplasia and blindness because of an overexposure to oxygen. As these children grew to school age, the integration movement finally got going in earnest. Today, scores of cities across the U.S. are now giving sightless children a full chance at a normal schooling...
...peaceful, prosperous, progressive America of 1956, Grapes of Wrath can be seen without evoking the violence of feeling it did in 1940, except perhaps in the drought-stricken Southwest where the farmers are again having to move out. Untimeliness is not the only reason that the movie does not produce sufficient impact. Although producer Darryl F. Zanuck thought the condition of the Okies even worse than John Steinbeck had reported, in a supposedly superior medium, he does not attain as graphic a portrayal of their plight as did the author...
...dark figures, feet clinking with ice, shuffled across the frozen swampland, friendly Austrian voices greeted them and white handkerchiefs waved. All last week they came, every day thousands of refugees from stricken Hungary, peasant families, workers, students, young children with notes of identity pinned to their clothing. Once across the frontier ditch they would look back, and there would be a wild shouting of names. Women refugees kissed the first people they met, turned aside and wept. Men pulled off frozen-fingered gloves and shook hands...