Word: looks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...incomparable technological achievement is more & more dedicated to the task of destruction. Man's marvelous conquest of space has made total war a household experience and, over vast reaches of the world, the commonest of childhood memories. The more abundance increases, the more resentment becomes the characteristic new look on 20th Century faces. The more production multiplies, the more scarcities become endemic. The faster science gains on disease (which, ultimately, seems always to elude it), the more the human race dies at the hands of living men. Men have never been so educated, but wisdom, even as an idea...
This paradox is related to another. Sometimes man boasts: "I am essentially good, and all the evils of human life are due to social and historical causes (capitalism, communism, underprivilege, overprivilege)." But a closer look shows man that these things are consequences, not causes. They would not be there if man had not produced them...
...Pond Run Farm" near New Richmond, Ohio, roly-poly John William Haussermann packed his bags. He put in some of his favorite blue suits, a clutch of flashy ties and plenty of cigars. Then he kissed his wife goodbye, took a last look at the Ohio River, where he swam as a boy, and drove into town to take the train. Last week, at 80, the gold king of the Philippines was on his way back to the islands to rebuild his war-shattered empire...
...aquatic love scene: "Maureen O'Hara playfully pushes John Payne into the water, dives in and a gay race ensues. Boy & Girl clamber onto the raft. . . . After they get tired laughing, he gives her a hard, intense, libidinous look and seals her mouth with a very long passionate kiss . . . so that the screenwriter won't have to think up any dialogue...
...Such romantic dialogue as: "Listen, darling, they're playing our song"; "Violets ! Oh darling, you remembered"; "Oh, Keith, darling, look! The stars are so close you could reach out and stir them around"; "Oooh! The bubbles tickle my nose...