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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show made a promising start in a major TV project, though its promise somewhat outstripped its performance. Like Walt Disney's learned japery (see below), Conquest's science reporting avoided condescension and cuteness, but the commentary suffered from a kind of Sunday-supplement inflation that too often made the pictures seem inadequate or anticlimactic. Cured of this fault and with greater success in getting some of its scientists to sound like the human beings they really are, Conquest should be not only good for the viewer but more fun to watch...
...virtues, vices, boasts, buffooneries, lies and loves, Rivera was always flamboyant and noisy. Often he seemed only a big boy, but that was deceptive. And for the thousands of fellow Mexicans who referred to him affectionately as Diego, there were more thousands who called him Maestro. The second group honored Rivera's art-uneven, grandiose, and yet perhaps the most impressive body of painting ever produced by one man in the New World...
...PRESSING question for every U.S. businessman, to say nothing of his stockholders, is: how will profits be in the near future? Very often the answer is gloomy. Executives mutter about the "profit squeeze" and "profitless prosperity," point ominously to figures showing that while sales increased more than 100% in ten years, net profits declined from 5.2% of sales in 1947 to only 3.5% last year. But the figures are misleading. The so-called profit squeeze is more apparent than real, simply because companies are spending so much money on replacement and expansion programs that have cost $264 billion since World...
...Italy, predicted "something like a civil war" for the U.S. (he later denied it all), sang for top Germans during the war ("What would you have done?"). In a triumphant 1955 return to the U.S. (at Carnegie Hall), he flashed moments of his oldtime operatic color, but more often his voice was thin, unsteady and unmistakably 65 years...
...being what it is, a powerful discouragement to missile warfare, audiences might be prepared by recent headlines to take the picture seriously. It therefore comes as a shock when the customer finds himself sniggering through scene after scene, not only at Karl Malden, who gives a funny and often touching performance as a master sergeant, but also at some of the most extravagant recruiting promises that have been made since Mohammed dangled before his warriors a vision of the houris of paradise...