Word: morale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish, addressing the National Institute of Arts and Letters in New York City: "The peace we seem to be making will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping-a peace, in brief, of factual situations, a peace without moral purpose or human intent, a peace of dicker and trade about the facts of commerce, the facts of banking, the facts of transportation, which will lead us where the treaties made by dicker and trade have always...
...Team Work" and Mae, "short on Intelligence but long on Shape." Louella worked in a hat factory, and every Saturday night the-boss "crowded three dollars on her." Beautiful Mae married a wheat speculator, moved into a Sarcophagus on the Boulevard, hired Louella for $5 as Assistant Cook. (Moral: Industry and Perseverance bring a sure Reward...
...Producer Wanger talked back: "... I believe that the problem of controlling venereal diseases is not only a moral problem, but also a very serious public health problem. As a citizen, concerned with public welfare, I take issue with the Legion's contention that un chastity is a greater scourge than venereal disease. . . . The protest [that the film violates the Production Code] is not valid. The Code does not and was never intended to apply to educational government films. . . . The film has not been withdrawn . . . a method ... to show it will be worked...
...feit of ripe peaches); Heir Jack Lewis (broke his neck horseback riding) ; Confederate Soldier Joe (one leg amputated, the other gangrenous). The Negro servants were not much better; old Maria, whose favorite son was serving a life sentence for murder, simply believed that "if people only had the moral courage to quit putting food into their stomachs the Lord would solve all problems by taking them away from here." Maria's husband spent most of his time in bed, gloomily waiting for the day when the Lewises would throw him out. "It's all dead wood," snapped crazy...
...Elsom), her humble husband (Gilbert Emery), a golddigger (Faye Emerson), a country clergyman (Dennis King), a merchant mariner (George Tobias), an industrialist (George Coulouris), a charwoman (Sara Allgood), a pair of cultivated suicides (Paul Henreid, Eleanor Parker). Nearly all the parts are well played, though as individuals and as moral and social symbols, the characters seem over-genteel, stagily conceived, dated. But Edmund Gwenn is a competently ghostly steward, Sydney Greenstreet a subtly alarming embodiment of the Last Judgment. And compared with recent bows to the Beyond-a .cheerful Chiclet like A Guy Named Joe, a quiet sniffle over...