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...effect of this plan on Dolwyn's inhabitants furnishes most of the drama of the movie. The combination of rolling, verdant landscapes and simple country people invokes those hazy, romantic adjectives, "delightful" and "charming." "The Woman of Dolwyn" is genuinely moving as well, although the film is occasionally marred when it leaves character study for melodrama...
Gradually, the reforms born of Nationalist China's last desperate stand were showing signs of maturity. From Formosa's verdant plains and lushly terraced mountains, farmers had reaped their biggest harvest since the war. Lightning raids by government police were keeping currency black-marketeers in check...
...Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return...
Then Mrs. Negishi was heard from. He had left her and the kids behind in sweltering Tokyo and she, too, wanted a vacation in verdant Chiba. Wearily, Negishi returned to Tokyo to see what he could do about his wife's wish. With him was a 17-year-old youngster (the brother of the girl at the inn) who happened to be a pickpocket by profession. One day, when Negishi wondered aloud how he would ever pay for his wife's holiday, his companion advanced an idea. In one day, the pair lifted 800 yen ($2.20) from passengers...
...city sprang up where no city seemed to belong. It built a 233-mile aqueduct, ruthlessly sucked away the water of the distant Owens River-a project which turned the verdant Owens Valley to desert and stirred its farmers to rebellion. It constructed an artificial harbor, hatched the motion-picture business and raised oil derricks and searchlight beams. Its full-voiced Chamber of Commerce ballyhooed to climate. The city gulped in armies of aging lowans, land-hungry Oklahomans and dazzled tourists...