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...first three decades of the century the upward trend of automobile production continued at a staggering tempo. Its momentum was only slightly retarded by the deflation of 1921 and its renewed burst of vigor in 1922 speedily regenerated business throughout the land. Each successive year of growth heightened the American Standard of Living and added to the nation's wealth. Cross sections of that upswing showed...
...fear and dazed by gas, when he sees someone crawling toward him in a mask mistakes his rescuer for a German soldier. Director Pabst never stops emphasizing his theme?that for miners, gas and war, not each other, are common enemies? but he does it with a photographic vigor that makes Kameradschaft resemble a brilliant newsreel much more than a dramatized tract. The picture has been successful abroad, where it was released last winter. With English subtitles to translate its sparse dialogue it is likely to enjoy a more limited success...
Paul Sharon, the character about whom the novel is built, is completely human; his healthy vigor, his disgust at shani and hypoerisy, his feeling for beauty, and his strong passion are contested against an inability to come to any decision, much as strength and weakness are opposed in most people. He is an ingenious, attractive lad whose life has been ruined by family heritage, an abnormal childhood, and his chronic incapacity to cope with the situations he comes up against, "Riverhead" deals with the metamorphosis of this last characteristic...
...pressure is economic and political but it carries with it and drawn strength from spiritual dissatisfaction. Neither the Republican party nor the Democratic have shown themselves capable of recognizing the basic problems to say nothing of handling them. The socialist party in this country appears to lose in intellectual vigor as it gains in popular support. The party attempts to reform capitalist society from the inside and the consequent moderation, although it appeals to the progressive, destroys its effectiveness for radical, creative political leadership. Communism, alone of the two radical parties, attacks capitalist society from the outside as it logically...
...vigor of the campaign may be, to some minds, sufficient guarantee of the individual candidate's sincerity. But to the average man, there is small patriotic glory in a struggle which has expended thirty millions, called public men from their duties in time of crisis, engendered uneasiness in the minds of the electorate, and which has appealed to emotions at a time when the need was for clear thinking on the issues and personalities involved. The story of the past campaign is not new, but it is unfortunate that it must be repeated at such a time, especially when...