Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of the obvious righteousness of his task, Senator Black finds the friends of his enemies and the enemies of all right-minded people not only numerous, but well-disciplined and clever. As soon as an inquiry is even mentioned, thousands of indignant telgrams pour into the Senate, and from then on, it is one obstruction after another that the culprits throw across the path of justice. Even polite questionnaires aren't answered, important records are hidden and destroyed, high powered corporation lawyers insist on "constitutional rights", which mean the rights of the rich to keep secret the secrets...
Wouldn't you know that Walter Lippmann would come out with his "high-times" and "needs-public-attentions" and "this-is-so-obvious-that-it ought-not-to-need-sayings" in direct, open opposition to Senator Black? I've not liked that young man much since his New Republic and Nation days...
...prime asset of Rhodes is its obvious sincerity and meticulous attention to fact. Another asset is its refusal to drag in that usual cinema qua non, a false romance. Yet these qualities, which make it good history, also make it a painfully pedestrian picture. Walter Huston has to boom out such lines as: "Napoleon tried to unite Europe and failed. I am trying to unite South Africa, and I will not fail...
...Becker, who calls herself Tamiris, dances with rare drive and energy, stomps her heels as does no one else. Harald Kreutzberg was hailed as a modern at first, partly because he was one of the early Wigman pupils. Now, despite his amazing virtuosity, purists consider him too theatrical, too obvious with his miming...
...book is devoted to a play-by-play account of Caesar's campaigns-a summary which leads Author Pratt to the surprising conclusion that Caesar "never became great as a soldier.'' He was not even a good soldier; his tactics were "infantile," his strategy "hackneyed and obvious"; he handled cavalry like an amateur. Having startled the reader into attention with this splash, Author Pratt then backs water, slowly at first. Caesar won his campaigns because he planned by campaigns, not by battles; he had phenomenal luck ("nobody could fight Caesar without making fatal mistakes...