Word: uplifts
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...almost every pitfall that Stars in My Crown tastefully avoided. It miscasts its parson (juvenile William Lundigan) and his loyal wife (sexy Susan Hayward), sugarcoats the characterization of its village atheist (ably played by Alexander Knox), plugs away so tritely and self-consciously at its tear-jerking and spiritual uplift that it appears insincere. Though shot in Technicolor in the red hills of Georgia, the movie generally seems truer to Hollywood, especially when it gives Actress Hayward such lines as: "I had begun to commit the gravest sin a woman can commit against her husband. I had ceased to care...
...down to a career as an art photographer, she urges him to devote himself instead to "getting ahead." Mollie lives by what Novelist Sykes bitingly calls "the Manhattan code." She fancies herself a political "progressive," but she really just has a power bug. And by keeping eternally busy at uplift, she provides herself with "an almost watertight bulkhead against melancholy...
Face to the Wind (Lafayette Films) is a little French comedy with some charm and inventiveness, but not quite enough to fill out its time. Cynical and sentimental by turns, the movie shows how a resourceful gang of urchins bring a measure of prosperity and spiritual uplift to the slums of Montmartre by the roundabout device of kidnaping pedigreed dogs...
Well, he thought, I do enjoy walking down to the Stadium each Saturday, with the band playing in the distance, and the cries of the banner vendors in the air. And the feeling of uplift when the team scores a touchdown...
...Gandhinagar got a glimpse of both Tandon's traditional past and Nehru's wondrous future. Sitting in a specially built, galvanized iron-sheeted dining hall, they ate Tandon's strict orthodox menu: rice, wheat pancakes, lentils, sweets, vegetables, buttermilk. Shuffling around the ten-stall "village uplift" exhibition they gaped at tractors, bulldozers and an improved oil seed crusher. They gasped at a lecture on artificial insemination (illustrated with plaster models) and were dazzled by shimmering neon advertisements. They saw posters on the evils of drink; noted the stall which sold cottage-made, unrefined palm juice sugar...