Word: capitalistically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...possible," Runner Iharos once said in a rare reach for the party line, "that ideology also helps in a psychological way, but the real answer is in training." There is, he was frank to admit, one other advantage that the hard-running Hungarians can boast over their capitalist competitors: no senseless squabbles over the difference between amateur and pro. Said he: "We have no professionals here. There are only amateurs. All athletes are workers...
...free-enterprise countries of the West, the U.N.'s Economic Commission for Europe had some surprising news. The Russians, said the commission in a report issued last week, are putting more of their national income into capital investments than the capitalist nations themselves...
Miss Weiss, speaking under the auspices of the Social-Democratic Forum, said that the split between the working classes and their capitalist dominators is widening at a greater rate than it ever has. "As Marx predicted," she emphasized, "the workers alone have the ambition to improve the lot of their nation and their fellow men, while all the capitalists wish to do is to walk around with mink coats on their backs...
...incidents-some mildly irreverent (as when Fernandel steals a favorite crucifix from his old church), some funny, some dull. As usual, the priest is better at pugilism than piety: he knocks out a professional boxer to uphold the honor of his town, and when the mayor and a local capitalist are at each other's throats, he quiets them with a bludgeon. Balanced with these feats of muscular Christianity are a pastoral interlude where Fernandel softens the mayor's stubborn son in a sequence that touches the strings of love and charity, and a less happy episode that...
...message, far more humanistic than either godly or Marxian, sounds loudest at film's end, when the town is inundated by a flood, and the depressing suggestion is advanced that only such a great natural disaster can put an end to the eternal quarrels of Communist and capitalist, priest and party hack...