Word: treating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Steinbeck's "The Forgotten Village," released in 1941, should be of considerable interest. It is worth noting, primarily, that no major studio took on this documentary of the Mexican village of Santiago and its fight against typhoid fever. Squalid ignorance is not the sort of thing Hollywood can treat sympathetically, as a rule, but a small outfit has presented the conflict between the old and new in a manner that rivals the job S. M. Eisenstein, the Russian director, did in the same area in 1933 with his "Time...
...From Moscow, via London, came a venomously polite inquiry: two Spanish soldiers had been captured on the Russian front - long after Madrid announced withdrawal of its notorious Blue Division; what should the Kremlin do? Regard the two Spaniards as prisoners of war, despite their Government's announcement? Or treat them as irregulars, liable to summary execution...
Embarrassed Madrid replied: treat them as irregulars...
There is a laudable attempt, within M.G.M.'s rather narrow limits, to treat the story realistically rather than as fantasy. Adapter Lewin has been generally discreet in his emendations of the novel. Much of the book's swishiness profitably disappears; most of the still more embarrassing purple patches have been unstitched from the fabric...
Anticipating the American objection that such regulation will increase the national debt, Copland stated, "In this country there is a tendency to over-emphasize the role of the national debt and underemphasize that of national wealth. A man will treat a newly-floated stock as an asset, but considers a government bond a debit, even if he owns the damned thing...