Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heaven Can Wait (20th Century-Fox) is a lengthy but frequently funny life history of an old New York skirt chaser (Don Ameche) from his brownstone puberty to his overripe old age. For years Director Ernst Lubitsch has been able to see more light touches in his cigar smoke than ever appeared in his scripts, and this Technicolored fantasy is no exception. The Lubitsch approach brings comic relief to such weary devices as the French governess, the son who is altogether too much like his wayward father, and the final personal interview with the Devil. When Lubitsch's delicate...
...airlines-like private flying -are controlled by the rules and regulations of the Civil Aeronautics Board, nominally under the Department of Commerce but empowered to act as an independent agency. CAB consists of five oddly assorted Presidential appointees who have been catapulted into the prize administrative berths of the 20th Century -into perhaps the most crucial regulatory task in American history...
Stormy Weather (20th Century-Fox) is an all-Negro musical which packs enough talent and enough plain friendliness, if only they were used well, to temper even the contemporary weather of U.S. race relations. Unfortunately, not much comes off as it might have...
White Tile and Vegetarians. Childs has ridden out many another crisis. Founded in 1889, it got off to a fast start because Brothers Samuel and William Childs got aboard two great trends of the 20th Century: 1) the anti-germ wave (they insisted that cheap food should also be clean food); 2) the quick-lunch craze (when they went into business there was nothing but the free-lunch saloon between carrying your own lunch to work, or eating at a leisurely, expensive "continental" restaurant). Periodically Childs ran into stone walls - as when wheatless, meatless days in World...
...Present Mood? In his view no government on earth has attained a respectable measure of democracy: they have all forfeited democracy-willingly (the U.S., Great Britain), forcibly (Germany, Italy), by necessity (Russia). At the beginning of the 20th Century the old equilibrium of middle-class society vanished; society needed "a diet of great reforms." The overwhelming necessity for their appearance and the dread of the frightening consequences that might follow their introduction created the atmosphere of apathy, fear, timidity, bewilderment, in which, during the prewar years, democracy's citizens lived...