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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However, Crime and Punishment, despite its weak ending, is one of the greatest novels ever written, and likewise The Most Dangerous Sin is far better than its soggy climax--in all, one of the best French films to come to the Brattle in quite a while...
...labor movement as protection for power-hungry and corrupt leaders of top-dog labor. Moreover, labor's leaders, having won their economic battle, failed to work out a philosophy going beyond oldtime A.F.L. President Samuel Gompers' antiquated one-word creed: "More." Armed with special privileges written into law, labor kept pushing for more "more," often at the expense of the economy's stability and orderly growth...
...faced by a battery of cameras and microphones, gave reporters a two-minute interview. It had been, said Nehru, "a very full talk, I hope a helpful talk." Then he offered an unintentional assist to the Red propagandists by conceding that, while in Lhasa, the Dalai Lama had indeed written "friendly" letters to the Red commandant because he 1) was passing through difficult and troubled times, and 2) was trying to avoid open conflict with Peking...
...crowds in years. After the elections, Delgado lost his job as director of civil aviation. In January, fearing he was about to be arrested, he fled to the Brazilian embassy. Though Salazar contemptuously let it be known that Delgado was in no danger, Delgado would not leave without a written safe-conduct pass. Last week's complicated ritual at the airport resulted from a compromise worked out by a Brazilian newspaperman so that neither Delgado nor Salazar need give way on prideful procedure points. With Delgado gone, Salazar, the gentle-seeming but tough ex-professor of economics who rules...
Jules Dassin set himself a huge task when he decided to film He Who Must Die-- the task of showing how and why Christ, if He came to earth, must again be crucified. Fortunately, Dassin was given a good head start by the book of the same title written by Nikos Kazantzaki, an unquestionably talented author. His presumption, however, as well as that of Dassin, can and ought to be questioned, though not without honest attempts at an answer...