Word: moralized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the letdown at the end, the picture is well worth seeing for the buildup that precedes it. Mankiewicz is an intelligent director, and he keeps his actors on the jump and his story on the move. Moreover, for Americans, the picture carries a moral they will long have need to ponder: if it is more blessed to give than to receive, it is also a damned sight more difficult...
...asserts that the moral aim of capitalism is not toil but leisure (leisure here defined not as play but as the "liberal work" of civilization). Real capitalism should bring not only full employment but full enjoyment by men "of the leisure work that machine-produced wealth can make possible...
TIME'S choice for Man of the Year is no moral award. The criterion: who, for better or worse, dominated the news of the year...
Gates of Paris (Filmsonor; Lopert). Rene Clair is a moralist who never moralizes. In this picture, for instance, his moral is a weighty one. Evil is not evil, Clair says, if it does good; in real life the absolutes are relative. Yet the point is made lightly, and it hits home with benevolent accuracy...
...announced its intention to halt nuclear tests in a letter to President Eisenhower and United Nations officials. Lawrence Scott, leader of the Nevada protest, said the committee is working on plans to send a delegation to the Soviet Union. "We desire to bring to the Russian people the same moral demand to stop preparation for nuclear war," he said...