Word: dickensian
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...rest of the cast gives the right Dickensian background to Sim's mutterings and prancings. Unlike most of the movie versions of "A Christmas Carol," this one suggests some of the philosophy that lies behind the happily-ever-after story. Scrooge becomes a "good" man by spending the money gleaned from his evil doings...
...newly formed London Labor Party (salary: ?1 weekly). Conscientious objector in World War I. Elected to Parliament in 1923, appointed Minister of Transport (1929-31) in Britain's second Labor government. Later (1934-40) became a dynamic leader of the London County Council, concentrated on clearing the Dickensian squalor of London's slums, had notices put up in schools saying: "The teacher may be wrong. Think for yourself...
Truman's speech, said Tarle, was "compounded of syrupy speculations." The U.S. President "resembled most the Dickensian Pecksniff. They have the same manner-alternating a fox's tail and a wolf's teeth . . . [Truman's] distinguishing trait is a rather disgusting simulation of sincerity, simplicity and good humor . . . [His true policy] is an appeal to force [concealed by] a mixture of oleaginous hypocrisy and disgusting boasting...
...Connecticut's colonial past, Mrs. Rollo and her lawyers extracted a Dickensian statute known as the Body Execution Law. Under that law, she had Mrs. Fox locked up in New Haven County jail to serve one day for every unpaid dollar of the judgment; she had to pay $10 a week to the county for the prisoner's room & board. Mrs. Rollo was losing money on it, but that didn't stop her. She wasn't moved by the sight of Mrs. Fox's husband trying to take care of the Foxes' three young...
British Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank was probably wishing that his gifted director, David (Brief Encounter) Lean, had not been quite so conscientious in copying Dickens and his illustrator, George Cruikshank. Director Lean's Great Expectations was hailed wherever it was shown as a superbly Dickensian cinema (TIME, May 26, 1947). In Fagin's case, Lean actually followed Cruikshank more closely than Dickens. The film never calls Fagin a Jew (Dickens rarely called him anything else), but he is faithfully villainous and repulsive-and unmistakably...