Word: riches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some things, in all honesty, cannot be ignored. The editors have contrived to fill up this issue with Death. Three out of four stories, two of four poems, tackle the old Reaper--and lose. Anabel Handy's story "Desire of a Fish," and the poems, by Adrienne Rich and Rachel Benet, deal with more lively themes, and come closest to effectiveness...
There is a new saint. "Outery" brings in the problem of rural social stratification to provide a running contrast to the battles, love affairs and brutalities. A rich family owns a foundry in the town, and uses wood to warm its hothouse pincapples while the proletariat freezes. The female leader of this clan, which doesn't like the Germans or the Fascists but is more afraid of the peasants than either of them, is vying for the affections of the partisan here with a poverty-stricken, soulful-eyed young lady...
Anna Magnani is notably absent from the cast, but there is good evidence that she is not the only actress in Italy. Lea Padovani mixes all the called-for emotions successfully in the role of the poor girl, while rich girl Elli Parvo manages to appear callous and concerned at the same time. Victoria Duse, as the angular hero, casts his lot with the good people at the required moment, and portrays the true heroic metamorphosis...
...preposterously wonderful world. "I am firm in my belief," wrote Millionaire John J. Raskob in the Ladies' Home Journal for August 1929, "that anyone not only can be rich, but ought to be rich." All anybody needed to do, said Raskob, was save $15 a month, put it into "good common stocks." At the end of 20 years it would have swelled to $80,000 and be yielding $400 a month in income. It was such an easy way to get rich that messenger boys stopped to read the stock-tickers in offices, chauffeurs drove with ears cocked...
...most talented and erudite men alive, he is incapable of writing anything that is not of some stature and interest. The Islands of Unwisdom cannot be compared to his best novels (I, Claudius, Claudius the God, Sergeant Lamb's America), but it yields a rich vegetation of outlandish history, and its narrative is skillfully knocked together by a carpenter who knows his nails and timber...