Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...retains 79 percent of its own mined coal and the Saar mines fall far short of the production needed to smelt down Alsace Lorraine ore. France must either pay $22 per ton for American coal or do without the fourteen million tons her industries lack this year. Meanwhile the wisdom of building up German industry at this time becomes increasingly doubtful as each new report comes in from Europe. Ruhr miners, on a 4,000 calorie per day diet, are only producing half their pre-war output, though Saar miners on 3,800 calories maintain an 80 percent production rate...
...offerings are hardly anything new. During their first few weeks in the Yard, eagerness, hunger, sheer boredom, or some more nebulous force usually impels Freshmen Union-ward just at the hour when the great dining hall first opens its maw. A short period of acclimation, as a rule, yields wisdom of a sort and customers begin to appear in a regular flow from opening to closing hour. But this year with the orientation past, the lines remain...
Last week things were looking up. Francis X. Bushman was a hit playing a gregarious ham actor called Major Carson (reminiscent of the comic strip's Major Hoople) on The Rexall Summer (Theater. In a sudsy serial, Bob and Victoria, he oozed kindly wisdom persuasively enough to insure himself a berth on that show for some years to come. "My radio family," he explained cheerfully, "is so longevious that at this rate I should be in soap opera for 30 years...
...Continental Congress. Without Beaumarchais' stubborn vanity and romantic ambition, the revolting colonies might not have armed the troops that forced the British surrender at Saratoga. Without that victory, Franklin's mission might have failed. Even with that victory, says Feuchtwanger, Franklin owed his success less to the wisdom of French policy than to a whim of Antoinette. It will probably be news to paid-up members of the D.A.R. that so much of the American Revolution was won on the playing fields of a Versailles boudoir...
Cinematically the picture is, without pretentiousness, a masterpiece: wonderfully rich and supple, bursting at the seams with humane sympathy, wisdom and creative energy. There is nothing visually fancy about it, and nothing notably original; its beauty rests on its simple and impassioned use of basic principles which most studios have abandoned or emasculated. It is devoted to that fundamental of movie reality: picturing the way that places and things and people really look and act and interact, and making the information eloquent...