Word: kindness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cover) Hollywood, which has a special logic of its own, has a ready answer for one kind of criticism: If entertaining the public and breaking box-office records isn't art, what...
Over the Land. For the big job a fumbling, talent-hunting monster has been let loose in the land. It is, of course, only a Walt Disney kind of animated monster -immense, awesome, full of old air, essentially harmless and monstrously inefficient. Its eyes are rolling cameras; it has a kidney-shaped swimming pool for a mouth, talent scouts for teeth, and a broad backside armor-plated with thousand-dollar bills. The overall effect is that of a dredge...
Another good bet is Shelley Winters, the tidiest little actress to come Hollywood's way in years. In A Double Life, Larceny and The Great Gatsby she played the kind of chippie-off-the-block whom men inevitably fall for and (in the movies) just as inevitably murder. She brought to her few short scenes a cheap-cologne breath of real life that lingers on. However, at present Shelley's charms, encased in her typecast, do not appear to the best advantage...
...Decorative Faith. In this defection of leadership, Maritain sees "a kind of punishment of the Christian world, which for a long period had more or less betrayed Christianity in its practical endeavor, and despised the lessons of the saints, and forsaken the immense herd of the hopeless whom destitution and unlivable conditions of existence riveted to hell on earth...
This seemingly overworked situation has been used by Author Sansom with both sympathy and artistic guile. Readers naturally feel superior to Henry; they may also have an uneasy feeling that Henry's kind of foolishness is pretty common...