Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brunner does not believe that a truly Christian civilization is just around the corner, but he is not pessimistic: "The terrible perspectives which are placed before us ... have opened the eyes of many of our contemporaries to ... the importance of the Christian tradition. It is not only the physicists and technicians, terrified by their latest results, who . . . are looking out for a new spiritual basis of life, but also the jurists, the sociologists, the psychologists, and . . . the artists and poets. The lowest point of secularization seems to be behind...
...talk about inflationary Government spending had grown so loud that even the Administration seemed to be taking note. Last week Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer was back at his desk in Washington after a swing around the country, in which he had dispensed thousands of soothing words into the ears of worried businessmen...
...corner of his 286-acre farm, Joe joined a crowd of several hundred oil scouts, brokers, geologists and gawking neighbors around the tin-hatted crew working the rig on a 128-ft. oil derrick. As Joe and they watched, there was a cough and a sputter; then a stream of oil shot out 30 ft. and poured into the mud sump pit. Joe York rubbed his hands in the oil, smelled it and smiled. "I guess I won't have to go back to milking those Jersey cows," he said. The oil scouts took but one look...
Tension (MGM) details the violent domestic problems of a Los Angeles druggist (Richard Basehart) and his cheating wife (Audrey Totter). Tormented by her weakness for hanging around the store and picking up his customers, the druggist elaborately plots the death of a salesman who finally carries...
Slackly written and strewn with loose ends, the melodrama is robbed of much of its inherent tension by overacting. But it has a variety of unpretentious and believable sets (notably those around its drugstore corner) put together by someone who knew sidestreet architecture and atmosphere. By even so modest a merit-and by trying to be nothing more than the slight time killer it is-Tension manages to be more entertaining than some of Hollywood's grander products...