Word: joylessness
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...accounting whiz-kid over his head and hand Ravenstreet the consolation prize of production chief. Fed up, fiftyish and rich, Ravenstreet resigns. A childless widower with a bad marriage behind him. he holes up with his books at first, then starts roving the nightclubs, even beds down for a joyless hour with an opulent blonde...
...ignoring the few at the end of the line who are laying their lives on the line. In the dance halls, the local girls sit in a row, dressed in colored tunics slit high and trousers that look like silk pajamas. Their painted faces advertise that they exist for joyless pleasures. In Saigon officers and officials take siestas. All these things are true. But still, Indo-China is not a very pleasant place to be in, even in the soft and untouched places, for who can be completely indifferent...
Belgian Congo is a massive equatorial sponge the size of the U.S. east of the Mississippi. Population: 50,000 Belgians, 11 million Bantus and Pygmies. To Joseph Conrad, the Congo River was "an immense snake uncoiled" curving through "joyless sunshine to the heart of darkness." But Belgian bosses have made the Congo the West's greatest reservoir of strategic minerals: three-quarters of its cobalt, the bulk of its uranium. Administration: unashamed colonialism, with no nonsense about "natives' rights." The natives, under hard-working capitalism, have a living standard far above Central Africa's average...
...while, life in the Krogh empire is delightfully plush. Anthony becomes Krogh's bodyguard, teaches his joyless boss how to relax, begins an affair on the side with an English lady tourist, and picks up extra change by funneling news about Krogh to a journalist. But when Anthony discovers that Krogh is swindling half the world, he rebels: he is not "unscrupulous enough to be successful." Suddenly dangerous, Anthony is casually destroyed by one of Krogh's assistants...
...star of the show was a moron (Don Hanmer) who didn't know his own age. The heroine (Olive Deering) was a mink-laden doxy with a pronounced streak of masochism. Joshua Shelley played an embittered musician who got a joyless amusement from baiting the moron. With this gallery of Jukes and Kallikaks, Danger (Tues. 10 p.m., CBS-TV) last week put on one of the most controversial of the year's TV dramas...