Word: cravenness
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...other job on the program, "Through Different Eyes," is another of the series of flashback-crime affairs, ably narrated by that ace yarn spicler, Frank Craven. It's not too tough to pick the murderer and everybody has a whale of a time making him confess. Craven's presence assures at least one good acting performance, and his supporting cast flounders along without mishap...
...that were all, The Seed Beneath the Snow would be an ordinary piece of democratic propaganda. But it has indestructible meaning and grandeur, because Silone dramatizes, chiefly within one village, the conflict of two irreconcilable worlds. One is the world of Caesar: petty officials, petty sycophants, sentimental housewives, craven husbands, tame-cat priests, small landowners who "would boil the Sacred Ribs of Jesus in the tears of Our Lady of Sorrows if they could make a broth of them"-in short, the dull, timid, heartless, ambitious mass of whom, in Silone's opinion, life is chiefly made. The other...
That Larry Fly has opposition even in his own camp was shown when Commissioner T. A. M. Craven followed him as a witness before the House committee. Craven praised the radio networks, expressed the view that newspapers should be allowed to operate stations, and described FCC's present plan of organization as "basically unsound...
...hardworking, competent cast is too high-powered for the picture. Long-suffering Bette Davis, in bangs and a short bob, is the attractive, spoiled, egomaniacal daughter of a man (Frank Craven) whose uncle-in-law (Charles Coburn) stole his business. Sister Olivia de Havilland is pretty sure she won't get a chance at happiness until big sister is disposed...
...aging and division that make up all family chronicles produce many a memorable sequence. The agony and embarrassment of Huw's first day at a national school is exaggerated to just the proportions that a boy would recall. The drubbing that Prizefighter Dai Bando (Rhys Williams) and his craven crony (Barry Fitzgerald) administer to Huw's priggish schoolteacher is a masterpiece of comic justice. The viciously pious bigotry that is determined to make something out of the innocent relationship of Angharad and her minister is stinging social satire...