Word: riches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...town to boast about: Master Illuminator Jean de Tavernier and Tapestry-maker Pasquier Grenier, whose works, commissioned by the great lords of the 15th Century, are now treasured by the museums and libraries of Europe; Painters Roger van der Weyden, Robert Campin and Jacques Daret, whose realistic detail and rich color placed them in the vanguard of the great Flemish artists of the Renaissance...
...nastiness is touched off when a poor little orphan (Margaret O'Brien) goes to live with her rich, half-mad uncle (Herbert Marshall). An officious, adder-tongued little minx who detests practically everyone she meets, Margaret soon meets her match. Her crippled cousin (Dean Stockwell) turns out to be the same sort of brat. In the tantrum match that follows, the two youngsters give themselves (and the audience) a crashing good time yowling, screeching and smashing what appears to be a gross of studio crockery...
...first, his institute was only a single bungalow. "Our front verandah served as classroom and laboratory, our back verandah as dining room and dairy." But the news of what was done there soon began to spread. The big, smiling "Padre Sahib" had turned barren and eroded acres into rich meadows of wheat. He taught the villagers how to plow and irrigate their crops. He set up a department of agricultural chemistry, and a home economics course for women...
Officials and the rich are not Giuliano's only prey; he also dislikes Communists. His gang has bombed C.P. headquarters in several towns. In 1947 he and his men attacked a May Day celebration on the Pian della Ginestra, killed eight and wounded 33. His argument against land reform is: "If it comes about, I will have to capture hundreds of peasants when I need money. Now all I need to do is capture a single baron and get all I want...
Last week, four years after VJ, the U.S. could well ask: "Isn't this where we came in?" From Red reports, it looked more & more as though the rich, strategic land of Manchuria had become another Russian satellite...