Word: developers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professed aim of the main research is to develop the best means of producing forest products on a sustained yield basis in central New England. "We've done a good deal of work in offering profitable methods to the profession," Hugh M. Raup, director of the forest, declared, "but of course we're conscious that we've only scratched the surface...
...fault of the weekly reviews; they adequately develop and comment on the news...
...Smile" used a murder incident merely as vehicle to carry the usual Huxleyan theme that lives not lived on both the sensual and rational level fall short of fulfillment. As a result the characters were not rounded, but rather each represented a perversion from Huxley's "golden mean." To develop the movie out of such a story it became necessary to make al the characters just a bit more human than they had been originally. Thus the film lost some of the story's meaning as the murder plot became an end in itself...
...Lack of Advice. But if Harry Truman seemed resigned to failure, Secretary of State George Marshall was crisply defiant. Appearing two days later before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, he explained exactly what that "necessary action" should be. Said Marshall in plain, undiplomatic language: "It is fundamental . . .to develop a basis of government [in China] not restricted to a small group and to clean up waste and corruption. But even more important, it must give definite, active consideration to the land problems of the peasantry. . . . This is critical from a purely military point of view...
...their highly sophisticated talents on the style perfected in the old Mack Sennett and Chaplin comedies. The story: a slap-happy cross-country French tour, complicated by saboteurs, stolen crown jewels, and burlesqued pursuers. The picture has an air of reckless and generally happy improvisation. It fails to develop and pay off its comic points brilliantly enough, but it is thoroughly enjoyable...