Word: villains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual everybody wanted a scapegoat -the villain who was to blame for inflation. Leaders of both parties were more interested in nailing down the blame for high prices than in deciding what to do about them. But inflation's effects could not be concealed by any amount of campaign oratory...
...days later, when he strode on to Wimbledon's famed center court for the finals, the crowd treated him like a villain. When he double-faulted they cheered. When he smacked a beauty, they sat on their hands. The big Californian put everything into winning the first set from Australia's steady, ambidextrous* Jack Bromwich, 29. Then he got "tired" again...
...American Democracy has no hero, only a villain-the American businessman. He is not, says Laski comfortingly, any more villainous than his European counterpart (whose predatory impulses are merely concealed under "greater elegance of form"). But he has, Laski believes, unknowingly "adapted . . . the main doctrines of Machiavelli's Prince." He regards the world primarily as "a market which the combined power of high-pressure salesmanship and cheap mass production will open to him . . . Massively energetic in action," skeptical of theories, he considers most politics as "a wanton interference with the natural laws by which businessmen govern society...
Respected Villain. Laski insists that he has written this book "out of deep love of America." He admits that the businessman's energy, skill and audacious vitality are (like the qualities of the best U.S. newsmen) "unsurpassed." He even concedes that the big businessman's faith in free enterprise is shared by such a large number of lesser U.S. citizens that labor has not even been able to build a political party worth the name. Therefore a successful anti-capitalist revolt is impossible unless the U.S. businessman is willing to lend a hand in arranging his own execution...
...Change of Hat. Serials now cost so much to make (four times as much as they used to) that the whole trick is speed and economy. Stock shots of escapes and chases are lifted from old films. All horses except the hero's and the villain's are picked for their nondescriptness; wheeled back & forth in front of the camera, five of them do the work of 50. In the same way, extras are multiplied by frequent changes of hat. Serial units frequently shoot 125 scenes, up to 18 minutes of finished film, in one day. Average...