Word: greeds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is no philosophical talk about bullfighting in The Brave Bulls until the writer has thoroughly pictured the rawness, depravity and greed that go into it with the bravery. Then he allows a little group of aficionados to say a few things...
...process of reason about the essences of God, man and things. He blamed not science itself for the 20th Century's moral crisis, but two factors bearing on the use to which men put science: 1) peoples' "mythmaking suggestibility," their "natural lust" for facile explanations; and 2) "greed and will to power, and the temptation to which the kind of omnipotence meted out by science . . . gives rise in the human race...
...What attracts so many learned men and women to such a murderous and destructive cause? sometimes it is frustration. Sometimes it is greed or love of power. Sometimes it is misplaced idealism. But ask them. See if they can give you a good reason for having faith in Communism or any of its works...
Alexander Dumas would smile at his characters in this gem: they are all as he would have them, exceptionally good or horrendously evil. Vincent Price as Richelieu is oily and sinister, with just a dash of greed. Frank Morgan as Louis XIII is weak and vacillating. The heroine is June Allyson, who is totally incapable of portraying anyone not pure and naive. Lana Turner plays Lady de Winter, the cruel, unscrupulous femme fatale; she is grotesquely miscast, but retains a certain innate charm...
...domestic life, it goes in for some pretty childish and cheesy spoofing. The interpolated vaudeville show is not on the whole a very good show or a very good idea. It does not seem quite consistent that Love Life -which so deplores the modern spirit of commercialism and greed-should itself be the stage equivalent of a double feature...