Word: typing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Those are the only items that make the front pages, however. There is another part of the story seldom set in type. Otherwise City Manager John B. Atkinson could hardly say, as he does, "I think we enjoy a rather pleasant relationship," while his Council is debating the Reducators list at the other end of City Hall...
Other 'Cliffedwellers disagreed, arguing that "the new regulations shouldn't make it much harder to meet the type of men we'd like to marry...
Rare is the author who makes an accurate appraisal of personal work, even by accident, but then Novelist Keyes is something of a phenomenon. The happy quip in the publishing world is that she learned to type on a cash register, that hardly anybody can match her at striking the $3 key. With her last ten novels (including The River Road, Came a Cavalier, Dinner at Antoine's), Novelist Keyes has rung up sales of more than 5,000,000 copies, and with her latest she is going to play again the kind of fiscal jingle bells that publishers...
Richard Widmark is frightening as Ray Biddle, a hood who conjures up a 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...
...jump the gun and attack the whites on their own ground, an autopsy proves the doctor innocent. Biddle is unconvinced. This stalemate is the point, and the logical climax, of the film. As the action continues, with Biddle's vendetta against the doctor, the characters resolve into more familiar type-patterns: the man who hates Negroes because he himself was involved, the doctor who must treat the man he hates. But the ending is still inconclusive. The doctor has won his life, others have died, but nothing has been changed...