Word: se
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy's position in the merger battle finally became clear last week: merger per se is a secondary matter; primarily, what the Navy is fighting against is an independent air force...
...While he had injected some realism into foreign relations, he also seemed naive enough to believe that the promulgation of American realism was enough per se to solve all foreign problems...
...se (adapted from Emile Zola's Therese Raquin by Thomas Job; produced by Victor Payne-Jennings & Bernard Klawans) is a dark brown, 19th-Century melodrama of crime and self-punishment. Thérèse Raquin (Eva LeGallienne), married to a stuffy, sickly, mamma's boy Paris milliner, is madly in love with a painter named Laurent (Victor Jory). She eggs Laurent into doing her husband in by way of a boating "accident" on the Seine...
...se has few such spurts. Its classic plot can never be entirely dull, but Playwright Job has made things seem unnecessarily oldfashioned. As sheer melodrama, Thérèse doesn't pump up enough action; otiose characters keep chattering their heads off. It doesn't pack enough suspense: there is no taut atmosphere of guilty tongue-slips and sharp, suspicious glances...
Lacking real tragedy or psychological depth, the melodrama seems cut from cardboard. Thérèse, a presumably passionate and strong-willed woman, seems anemic compared to her sister connivers at murder; she lacks the hard fascination of Ruth Snyder quite as much as the grand villainy of Lady Macbeth...