Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...closely. They decided that she really is a "painless" baby suffering from "indifference to injury, of congenital origin"; she cries only when hungry or angry. It is a rare condition (first described ten years ago by Johns Hopkins Neurologist Frank R. Ford), probably due to a defect in the central nervous system. No cure is known. Last week Beverly's mother, Mrs. Victor Smith, wife of a Firestone employee, took the baby home with a lot of advice from the doctors. She must watch Beverly constantly: the baby might break a bone and continue using it until it could...
...dilemma caused by the complexity of the sub-plots becomes almost amusing towards the end, when the central character is forced to rush from one death-bed to another in order to tidy up the loose ends of the plot and conclude the tale. Of course, much of this is as Dickens wrote it, and there might be no justice in complaint were it not for that masterpiece of last year as an example of what can be done with Dickens...
...jotted down each one with meticulous care. When it was all over (it had taken 30 minutes), she made a few more notes at the bottom of her clipboard. Telephone? "No." Union member? "No." "Man." "White." She thanked the peddler and moved on to the park adjoining Central Public Library in dirty, downtown Los Angeles...
With so much dough riding the throw, Duvivier carefully hedged his bet. His script tore down Tolstoy's complex scaffolding of historico-religious theory, eliminated the subplots, preserved only the central study of a falling woman, with a few glimpses of the high society she fell from. This might have been sufficient if the film had also saved a suggestion of the dreadful glacier-creep of Tolstoy's characterization. Instead, the camera work is uniformly uninspired, and the psychological glacier dissolves into teary slush...
Little Mammal, What Now? Even if the bomb falls, muses Author Toynbee there is still a grain of hope. The people most likely .to survive and to be capable of salvaging "some fraction of the present heritage of mankind" are the Negrito pygmies of Central Africa -a race "said by our anthropologists to have an unexpectedly pure and lofty conception of the nature of God and of God's relation...