Word: chillness
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Artistically, the film is no less extraordinary. It has its blurs and failures. Finely cut and paced as it is, the picture goes on so long, and under such darkness and chill, that the lazier-minded type of cinemagoers will probably get tired. Chaplin overexerts, and apparently overestimates, a writing talent which, though vigorous and unconventional, weighs light beside his acting gifts. As a result, a good deal of the verbal and philosophic straining seems inadequate, muddled and highly arguable -too highbrow for general audiences, and too naive for the highbrows...
...York, the president of one of the refining companies promptly announced that his firm would rebuild on the same spot, because Texas City was too well located to be killed by a single disaster. But others standing on the football field in the chill evening, at the mass funeral service, were not so sure about Texas City's tomorrows. The false sunset from the waterfront still rouged their set faces. And in the ruined center of town, the big clock on the Magnolia garage was still stopped dead...
High on the chill slopes of Bolivia's 12,000-ft. altiplano, a cholo (half-Indian) store clerk one day let a prospector settle a $250 account for a claim to a tin mine. The clerk's boss, outraged by the deal, gave him the claim and made him pay the bill. That was how, at the turn of the century, cholo Simón I. Patiño got into the tin business. For years, he and his sinewy wife wielded picks, hauled up buckets, smashed ore. By 1910, they were rich...
...Germans, nor for the quislings. Her only wartime concerts were in neutral Sweden and Switzerland. Her husband died last year in a hospital while awaiting trial for collaboration. The Norwegian Government had no legal charges against her, and coldly gave her a passport. Norwegians felt a decided chill toward their great singer, who during the occupation had chosen to enjoy a comfortable life in their midst...
...writer of] the Marshall article, with classic incisiveness and clarity, has assembled data with an inescapable meaning-America now enters the arena of history on her own. All the chill introspection which attends the individual at the death of a cooperative and sympathetic parent who, wisely or unwisely, consciously or unconsciously, shielded him from the full weight of the world, comes home to the heart and mind. America has lost its mother. . . . Great Britain has been that . . . and she has evoked the devotion, the suspicion, the resentment which fits into the personal relationship between a powerful, strong-willed parent...