Word: vastnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Couch or Box? Author Sheen does not denounce all psychiatry, or even all Freudian techniques. He concedes that medical science, in dealing with mental problems that have no ethical or moral causes, "has a vast area in which it can legitimately operate." He objects to Freudian doctrines chiefly when they enter the realm of philosophy with such assertions as "man is an animal and has no free will, or that 'religious doctrines are illusions...
President Truman called on Cogress yesterday to create a Columbia Valley Administration to help develop and conserve the vast natural resources of the Pacific Northwest...
...desire to accumulate millions. Instead, Allen shows the financial giant with a supreme desire for order. The cut-throat competition of rampant industrialism which he saw after the Civil War was to him wasteful and harmful to the economy. His theory was justified in the 1890's when the vast confusion of railroad systems brought most of them to bankruptcy. Here, Morgan had his chance to bring supreme order to an industry, an order which he thought was essential to all industries...
...because they fear the friendship of the West more than its hostility. They cannot afford to allow free and friendly intercourse to grow up between the vast areas they control and the civilizations of the West...
...seldom slackens. At its brilliant best in the fight scenes, which are probably the most brutally believable ever screened, Champion is equally good at creating suspense. In a chase sequence, when Midge is being cornered in an empty arena by faceless racketeers, the camera movement in & out of the vast shadowy beehive of tunnels, arcades and aisles is expertly terrifying...