Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drawing room comedies, there is always one minor character who is extremely annoying. Usually it is and American, who is supplied with a pile of Yankee idiom and a vicious accent and who distributes these to the audience with magnanimity. But "Yes M'Lord" 's American is a girl and relatively well behaved, and Elaine Stritch brings enough, restraint to the role to excuse her occasional moralizing. She is part of a generally excellent cast...
...plain truth is that Yugoslavia is a vicious, degrading Communist state. It has a new aristocracy-the party leaders with their Buicks in Dedinje; a new middle class of high officials, and a new proletariat which is poorer and bigger than the old. Certainly there has been much construction and some land has been reclaimed. But the price is a subhuman standard of truth living, an and infinite falsehood, a dreariness, social an system inability in to which the distinguish two worst between crimes are to worship God and to say no to the state...