Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usual in the county-fair and side-show cinema, the cast of Carnival includes that familiar breakfast set of human oddities (midgets, bearded lady, fat woman, giant, snake-charmer) who now make a better living by impersonating freaks in pictures than they used to make by really traveling with the circus. The plot concerns the efforts of a widowed puppeteer (Tracy) and his male assistant (Jimmy Durante) to prevent welfare agencies from taking possession of his child; the efforts of his female assistant (Sally Eilers) to make him see that this can easily be accomplished by a second marriage...
...Shem, Japheth and the girls prove irredeemably wayward, human. By the time his craft comes to a perch atop Mount Ararat, Noah has even lost confidence in his distressed, slightly balmy wife. The children desert him, the animals turn savage, and poor old Noah is left sad, infirm, alone. He does not think he has quite deserved all his troubles. He doubts if their imposition has been quite "sporting" of God. But there is just one thing he wants to know. He lifts his shaggy face to heaven. "Are you satisfied?" he calls. "Are you satisfied?" And again...
...country. It is the stuff of demagoguery. For that reason Dr. Dewey can get away with a lot of loose thinking and still be consistent to his philosophy. But this very fact is what makes intelligent and stupid alike have less faith in the power of the human mind. If the greatest philosopher in the United States thinks sloppily, we can all join Dr. Townsend, who says of those who have spent their lives studying the economic system that they know "no more about it than...
...thinks: "Ah, if only they existed, those gods of theirs, and he might, even at the cost of never-ending torment, howl in their faces, like the baying dogs, the bitter truth-that no hope of heaven, no promise of reward, nothing can justify the end of any human life...
...climactic though it seems to his career, is a tragi-comedy in itself. Author "Wilson Wright" (William Reitzel) has made the most of it, re-stirring the teacup-tempest with an impartial spoon. From contemporary, controversial accounts of Napoleon's dying days he has pieced together a convincingly human episode, a comedy that ends inevitably in death...