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...Voluntary control might not suffice, he writes, "because some might 'cheat' by having more children than their share; the state would be delegated as the agent to enforce uniform family limitation. More correctly, the church would interpret the natural law in the situation, and the state would help to enforce its observation...
...marries the pregnant Fanny (Leslie Caron) after her sea-struck lover, Marius (Horst Buch-holz), jilts her for a square-rigger. Boyer plays Marius' father, Cesar. They are vast bladders of honor, mountains of wrath, vestfuls of selfesteem, and it is a great pleasure to watch them cheat each other at cards or craftily set a derby hat in the street and wait for a sucker to break his toe on the brick inside. Each plays the fool well, and each also accomplishes the difficult trick of playing the wise man-Chevalier when he tells his young wife...
...much maligned motor salesman harmless in comparison with those members of the public who try to cheat the dealer...
Cain is a dour, sly farmer with qualities still highly regarded by north-countrymen :-thrift, industry, independence ("By all men I set not a fart")-who tries to cheat God in the number of wheat sheaves he offers...
...first objection to this play is that it is not as "well made" as it is said to be. Miller never really synthesizes the psychological and the social; he straddles them. Really there are two morals to All My Sons: "Don't cheat the government, you never know when you'll be found out" and "Don't marry your brother's girl friend, she may turn out to be your father's partner's daughter...