Word: cretins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marriage Programs: ". . . Enable cretin couples to take their marriage vows over a coast-to-coast network and later to raise children who will become contestants on quiz programs...
...those of the novel. The main difference is that while Frederic Wakeman had a Message, and to the detriment of his novel, spelled it out in overly large letters for Book-of-the-Month Club buyers, the moviemakers have felt impelled almost to club his point home to any cretin who wanders into the theater. Despite this fact, you will find yourself in sympathy with the bright young man who makes his way in the "game" with a front compounded of sincere ties and a fetching spiel. You will find it not at all difficult to share his disgust...
...Traitor," "Cretin," "What about our sovereignty?" The Senate adjourned in a hurry...
When it comes to being obnoxious, he's overshadowed by everyone else in the cast. First of all, there's Sterling Holloway. Holloway looks, acts, and grovels like a local vice-president of the Cretin's Union, who models strait-jackets in his spare time. After him comes Felix Bressart, who is probably a nice fellow to his own friends, but then who wants to bother with those missing links? Bressart, lovable chap that he is, divides his time between kicking Holloway around and trying to marry his own daughter off to the local herring czar...
...perversion of the longest-running play in theatrical history, now in its eighth year. Jack Kirkland's stage play, adapted from Erskine Caldwell's novel, is a low-down drama of dirt, malnutrition and moral decay among Georgia backwoods farmers. It is full of rank, rutty sexuality, cretin humors, and a certain comedy of destruction...