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...other characters are just background. Kim Hunter as Sam's divorced wife does bring a new and welcome interpretation to a hackneyed role. But Ethel Barrymore as the old lady who fights to keep the paper from falling under the financial axe is the same kind, old, quiet, wise, power-behind-the-power as she was in her last dozen pictures. Hollywood has no one else who fits the same description. Members of the paper's staff were meticulously drawn to fit a pattern that directors have carefully designed over the years...
...religious symbolism starts to pile on thickly, and, to those who don't know previously what Mr. Eliot is driving at, the speeches degenerate into a sort of rasping buzz that emanates from the stage. Actually, of course, this rasping buzz is Mr. Eliot, grinding his Anglo-Catholic axe and cleverly turning the institutions of modern society into arguments against themselves...
...open insult to both actor Douglas and the principles of Druidism, Big Trees deserves the axe...
...March issue's contents eight of the fifteen articles are primarily informative, while the rest are exercises in axe-grinding. There are also a few features--a meandering poem about rights and a condemned book about the American people...
Like all analogies, this one can be carried only so far as the willingness of the rich to pay taxes, which reaches a nadir about this time every year. But it is something for the Congressional axe-brandishers to consider as they chop away at foreign aid while their eyes are fastened on the election stump. While there is no police power to force them to pay the taxes of the free world, the threats of outside conquest and inner deterioration are far more pressing in the international case than in the domestic...