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...friends advance his career to suit themselves. Typical among his Congressional causes is backing a bill (sponsored by a socially ambitious Western lady) to carve the Rocky Mountains into statues. All goes swimmingly until his two principal backers, Racketeer Joe Canarelli and Banker Littenham, fall out. Caridius' naïve distress is as usual allayed by Myerberg's realistic explanation: "That's the trouble with Joe, he expects from other men the same absolute unequivocal performance of their word that he gives to them. That's all right among racketeers, but he doesn't understand...
...Cubans thought this election would be decisive but the favored candidate remained this week Dr. Miguel Mariano Gomez, who, it is expected, will be supported by a Nationalist-Liberal-Republican party coalition and who is seemingly favored by Cuba's military "Strong Man," genial, naïve, back-seat-taking Colonel Fulgencio Batista, who two years ago was a simple sergeant...
Mary Burns, Fugitive (Paramount) is evidence that, if the cinema is not quite ready to call off its exploitation of G-men and supergangsters, it feels driven nevertheless to eerie heights of implausibility in search of new twists. Sylvia Sidney, naïve proprietress of a roadside restaurant, falls in love with a winning stranger (Alan Baxter) only to learn, when he begins discharging firearms, that he is Public Enemy No. A1. She is accused of aiding his escape, bullied into a false confession, sent to prison. To trap Baxter the G-men rig up an elaborate escape for Miss...
...with the insight Benga provided, Geoffrey Gorer came to the conclusion that white men cannot understand the mental processes of true savages, who have no time-sense. Before his journey was over, Geoffrey Gorer was prepared to accuse such writers on Africa as Paul Morand and William Seabrook of "naïve diabolism," of having written misleading reports. He believes that African Negroes, like the Amerindians, are doomed to extinction unless new methods of governing them are developed...
Last week this rebellious Japanese lady, in the story of her life, seemed to look back upon her own varied activities with a mildly gratified air of astonishment, offered a book at once quaint and informative, packed with matter-of-fact political and social data and naïve little feminine disclosures...