Word: moral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This position made economic, political and moral sense. The hope of the Marshall Plan had made it possible. Now that the disruptive Communist drive in France was checked, the door to a stable future for Europe was open. Russia could not close it by deadlocking the London Conference...
...Horn's finding pointed an obvious moral for air travelers: don't fly with a pilot who has just had a crash. For airlines and pilots, that conclusion poses a dilemma. How can the pilot get back his confidence unless he flies? Horn suggests that a crashed pilot should go through a comeback course of supervised flying with a copilot. If his jitters are severe, it may help to talk out his trouble under a "hypnotic" drug...
...novel, The Bishop's Wife is Sam Goldwyn's and RKO's special Christmas cookie. It is a big, slick production. The only thing it lacks is taste. Some moviegoers may also be distressed by the lack of Christmas spirit in what is apparently the moral of the picture: you can't trust a soul with your wife...
...DcMille films, the people are caricatures, the production lavish, and the crowd scenes awe-inspiring. Gary Cooper is the strong silent moral colonial, who raises not a single eyebrow when alone in the woods with Paulette Goddard. She is intensely feminine, idealistic, and a perfect complement for Cooper. Opposing them are completely villainous Howard Da Silva, and evil inscrutable Indian chief Boris Karloff. DcMille has chosen an Indian war of 1761 as the setting of "Unconquered" and has duly costumed hundreds of extras as colonials. British redcoats, and painted aborigines. Fearless colonial Gary Cooper twice frees beautiful bondslave Paulette Goddard...
...different forms. "Quixote," he concluded, "lives in his own right beyond the words of Cervantes, continuing to classic new stories within the imagination of the reader. Like Little Abner, he outlives the imagination of his creation. He makes the Christian tradition immortal in himself as no strictly moral fictional character could...