Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...free will. Armed with his new sense of freedom, man was able to launch upon a prolonged era of creativity. But the "unanticipated disaster" of modern times, says Niebuhr, was that man, forgetting that his power for evil was as great as his power for good, began to identify his own creative activity with the will...
...university employment service had collaborated in arranging the seminar. One basic conclusion about the local job market: for certain specialists, jobs will still be plentiful. Dieticians, nurses, teachers, metallurgical and ceramic engineers should have no trouble at all. Chemical and mechanical engineers will also be in fairly good demand, though some will have a better chance if they go East after graduation. Nonspecialists, however, have a different kind of problem...
...fact, for a good half of the 175-odd companies which had reported by early this week, there had been no recession; they turned in earnings that were even higher than in 1948's fat first quarter. A notable example was Republic Steel, first of the big steel companies to report. It had a 60% jump in its net profit, from $9.1 million to $15.2 million. Another example was General Electric Co. Despite a slump in the sale of appliances and an industrywide wave of price-cutting, G.E. boosted its first-quarter net to $26.7 million (up $1.3 million...
Flamingo Road is not even paved with good intentions. Jerry-built out of odds & ends of cliches, it is an unashamed reworking of a formula that has been familiar to Joan Crawford's fans for a couple of decades. The tired old plot is in no way improved by Joan's new hairdo, which is blonde and unbecoming. Sydney Greenstreet, with his lashless, inscrutable stare, is no whit different from what he has been in a dozen similar roles. As usual, he gets the dirtiest end of the dialogue. Sample, as Joan pulls...
Brightest spot in this murky yarn is the clear, vigorous, imaginative camera work. There are beautiful shots of Havana's buildings rising like white frozen fountains at the end of receding alleys, and some brilliant bits on the revolution in full swing. There are also good performances by Jennifer Jones, David Bond, Gilbert Roland (as a calypso-crooning conspirator), and onetime silent-star Ramon Novarro (as a middle-aged plotter...