Word: wrath
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Privately, many Southern journalists are far more enlightened than their fellow citizens on the segregation issue, but professionally they are hamstrung by front-office pressure and fear of community wrath. Others are too tied up in their own emotional knots to do justice to the problem. They have struck an uneasy balance between their jobs as newsmen and what they feel is their duty as Southerners...
Died. Charles Grapewin, 86, oldtime Broadway comedian-turned-Hollywood character actor, who performed in more than 100 films, notably as Grampa in The Grapes of Wrath; in Corona, Calif...
...have him propped up unwisely with drugs and other such aids so that he could fulfill speaking and TV commitments to the permanent detriment of his well-being-just to get by election day." Hearing of Neuberger's remarks, other Democrats blanched with dismay; Republicans rose in wrath, with Minority Leader William Knowland rumbling that he was "deeply shocked" by the accusation. Dick Neuberger's explanation: he was only trying to be friendly toward the President-so friendly that he had even sent Ike a copy of his newsletter...
...news outraged the devout. From their ghettolike quarters in Jerusalem, a band of extreme-Orthodox Jews sallied forth and plastered the city with proclamations calling down the wrath of God on anyone suggesting that the Rambam had been buried in "unworthy company." Hundreds of bearded and ringleted men picketed the tomb to prevent further sacrilege, fasted, paraded through the streets, recited psalms at the graveside day and night...
...about the Helen, Rossana Podestá is a charming girl, but the customers like King Priam (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), may well ask: "Is this the face that launched a thousand ships?" And is this Hector (Harry Andrews), dreadful in his wrath and fierce Achilles (Stanley Baker), both with arms like lath? They look, as on the field of Mars they clash, like aging brokers at a game of squash. They talk like brokers, too, except when the scriptwriter tries to belt out a Homer but winds up with a high-flown foul, e.g., "Tell her she will walk...