Word: haunted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joan Fontaine's performance as the young Mrs. Winter provides a wholesome whiff of sincerity in an atmosphere laden with sleazy pluto-romanticism. The other characters--including grave, moustached Mr. Oliveir--are the stereotyped masks which haunt every unsuccessful attempt at fiction. Readers of Miss Dumaurier's novel will notice to their amusement that under Mr. Hays' jurisdiction a husband does not shoot his wife, and that villains do not get away with their crimes as if there were neither justice nor morals in Hollywood...
...Mice and Men" is a Zolaesque ghost of naturalism came back to haunt the screen of the U. T. John Steinbeck's picture of ranch hands struggling against an unnamed force that drives them to destruction is a company little exercise that might have been carved out of the space, gaunt stories of Stephen Crane, or the vast welter of Frank Norris's novels. It has Crane's economy and concentrated power, combined with Norris's careful documentation of detail. It is this detail that makes the film a masterpiece--the whirring belts of farm machinery, dogs hanging around...
...haunt a ruined century...
Nothing is more certain than this: that more than enough applicants could be found for the jobs. Every year a growing percentage of students look for work to help pay expenses. Every year almost as may men haunt the Student Employment Office unsuccessfully as apply for jobs and obtain them. It should become more and more possible for brilliant men of small means to earn their way at Harvard...