Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gifted violinist who will not prostitute his talent to the bourgeois ideas of the patrons of the arts. Although he wins the fiancee of Schultz, his money-grabbing, plagiarizing fellow musician, he ends in poverty, while Schultz cavorts in the salons of Europe. But there is no doubt in the minds of the audience that Egor will find appreciation for his realistic compositions in the revolt of the workingmen. Fortunately there is only one shot of troops ruthlessly suppressing revolution and that is well-done through suggestion...
...Madame Bovary. The comedy effects are good and the general effect is amusing, but its failure to bring out the fundamental problem which faces the heroine renders it unfortunately inconsequential. Flaubert's treatment of this theme, the struggle of a bourgeois matron to find romance and love, is no doubt superficially satirical, but underneath there is the serious development of this theme. It is this phase of the novel which makes it great and this the movie has neglected. Although it has thus lost the opportunity of making itself a great movie it does offer considerable amusement and will prove...
...fence and is now supporting Nipponese equality claims! Empire-Builder, Big Navy England of all nations! And she has the added presumption to offer Japan her good offices, in polite condescension to the Japanese, to mediate and urge the Americans to see their point of view. Admiral Yamomoto no doubt felt that there was something 'fishy' about it all, and that admirable statesman politely refused the tender of good offices so kindly offered. Had he seen through the British change of position? That it was probably an attempt to antagonize Americans and Japanese while the good Samaritan stood...
...standing of the Storm Troopers are taken up in a like manner. All of this evidence is used to create a single impression: that the Nazis are consistent only in that they never tell the truth. Though no flag of warning is displayed, there can be no doubt about the editors' propagandist intentions. They, like many another writer of late, are busily grinding their axe in the hope that some day it may fall on the neck of Der Fuehrer. The book's merit lies entirely in the originality of the idea on which it is based...
...were once more concerned with the state of trade. They had pondered the President's reassuring fireside talk; they knew that Big Business was again a welcome White House caller; they read a lot about the Roosevelt "truce" with industry and banking. And if there was still any doubt about the Administration's mellowing attitude, it should have been dismissed by the haste with which the President and his lieutenants shot down the little inflation balloon which hovered over Washington for a day or two last week. Just to be sure the balloon was grounded, the Treasury called...