Word: err
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...literary-minded might make cracks about "The Charnel House of Palmer." But Graves maintains stoutly that Palmer "never killed nobody," was the victim of prejudice and circumstantial evidence in the Cook case. In other hands this story might be merely one of those Sunday-supplement series called "Did Justice Err?" But Old Pro Graves has written a fine cross section of early Victorian life. With his flair for period and his ear for dialogue-he gives a wonderful Dickens-Surtees flavor to his reconstructed conversations-Graves proves once again that a born writer can make a readable book...
...years, said Guggenheim, he has been making aeronautical prophecies, and he has tended to err on the conservative side. In 1927, for instance, he predicted (with a good many escape clauses) that "in this generation in which we are living" commercial aircraft would travel at 300 m.p.h. "At that time," said Guggenheim, "I was branded a partisan and a visionary...
...control lest we traumatize ... I should like to suggest that the foundations of democracy can be achieved even while total freedom of behavior may be curtailed. The ideal solution would be neither too much nor too little training suppression. Since nobody knows how much is too much, if we err, let it be on the side of potential neuroses. [Perhaps thus we can] make our world a better place in which to live ... If we do not choose some risk of creating neuroses, we ... increase our delinquency and criminal rates...
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...hero of the film--if it has a hero--is a little street urchin, Pedro, whose fault is to ally himself with an equally miserable delinquent, Jaibo, who becomes his personal devil. "Born but to die, and living but to err," Pedro is a picture of the frustrated potentiality which is typical of the characters in the movie. When he wants to become a "good boy," his mother throws him out into the street; when he stops Jaibo from beating a friend over the head, the friend is already dead. When he gets a job, Jaibo causes him to lose...