Word: bugaboos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With intrigue and intensity, Viva Zapata retells the parable-like story of the Mexican peasants' struggle against a tyrannical government in the early years of this country. Given this plot, the film might have emerged as either a wild, bloodletting Western or a saccharine treatment of patriotic bugaboo. But John Steinbeck carefully avoided both in a script that director Elia Kazan has bandled with magic. His art is obvious in the charactarization of Zapata, heroically played by Marlon Brando...
...siren of alarm among U.S. labor unions; they fear that the already swift spread toward automation will throw thousands of workers out of jobs. Before a congressional committee investigating the stock market last week (see WALL STREET), General Motors President Harlow H. Curtice took special care to debunk the bugaboo. Said he: "Automation is the making of tools to produce more efficiently . . . It's progress...
Miss Shentall, being only five years off the mark herself, has turned the actress' bugaboo of Juliet's age (not quite 14) splendidly to her advantage. With quiet restraint she portrays the childish but profound love of a young girl with a bridge of freckles across her nose, who has come to womanhood just a little sooner than she ought. Since this is her first major theatrical role, much credit is no doubt due Mr. Castellani's direction, for it is her part which holds the picture together...
...cited [TIME, Jan. 11] as making a statement not in fact made and, by implication, as supporting a viewpoint not in fact supported. Nothing that I said while at the meetings of economists in Washington came close in sound or meaning to the statement attributed to me: "The bigness bugaboo took a licking here." I did remark, in an off-the-cuff discussion with one of your reporters, that many economists have apparently come to consider monopolistic business as much less widespread and important in the American economy than they had formerly believed. I suggested that this change of attitude...
...should like to be put on record as denying that bigness is a "bugaboo" and that the "bugaboo" took a licking at the hands of professional economists...