Word: redeemability
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Last week, with the promised pay. increases, an extra week's vacation (to start in 1952) and a new pension scheme under their belts, Britain's miners set out to redeem their pledge. To give them added zeal, every miner in the country got a letter starting "Dear Friend," printed in a reproduction of the Prime Minister's handwriting. The letter said: "The nation looks to you; I am sure you will not fail . . ." It was signed "C. R. Attlee...
...without meaning to, has let loose the most dynamic force in the world. The U.S. cannot silence the Pied Piper of progress. It can only try to redeem the promise of his pipes...
...follies of show business and its "concentrated gatherings of neurotics, egomaniacs, emotional misfits and precocious children." It matches some penetrating characterizations with top-drawer acting. With all these merits, plus a full-blooded story, the picture is absorbing enough to ride over an occasional lag, satisfying enough to redeem a contrived epilogue...
...fragments into a literal, realistic continuity, with only a gesture or two in the direction of the original atmosphere. As a result, the story's poignancy and humor are all but swallowed up in a drab, tedious film that even a set of good characterizations cannot redeem...
...that contains Communism in Europe, the Red tide has risen mightily in Asia and now threatens to engulf half the world's people. In all Asia, tiny, beaten Japan is the one place where the U.S. still has a firm foothold, where it still has a chance to redeem the West's sorry record of failure and confusion in the East...