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...Ramsen, give excellent performances. They do so well, in fact, that they could get along without any help from Pundit Pearson, who shows up again at the end to preach the moral. In the process, he almost pulls the teeth of a film that has a lot of bite...
...summary action could squelch the family squabbles of the armed services, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson was off to a booming start. The day after he officially took over from James Forrestal, he called in the press to proclaim his plans for an enforced peace, "right now, in one bite, as far as the law will permit...
...replacement capital cannot come from individuals of either class, it must come from the state. Can the state, without calamity, take a higher bite in taxes out of all the incomes of its citizens? The Economist thinks not. In fact, it said: "The long continuance of taxation of anything like 40% of the national income will ruin the country. It will not do so spectacularly in any one year or the next-there might be more hope if it would...
Morris Cohen had not gone far on his journey before he realized what his fate would be: he was a "stray dog" among philosophers, doomed to bite at many theories, but never to find one that answered all his questions. And so, he wrote, "I resigned myself to a position of skepticism towards all philosophical systems and system-builders." He refused to be one of the men & women who try to "remake God and the universe in their own images." His own plea to philosophers: "Why assume that where two philosophies differ one must be wrong? Two pictures...
Story No. i (The Facts of Life) is a pleasant, inconsequential gag and No. 2 (The Alien Corn) a piece of out & out bathos. But script No. 3 is a solid bite of meatiest Maugham. The Kite is the story of Herbert Sunbury (George Cole), a simple-minded city lad with a possessive mom (Hermione Baddeley) and a small boy's passion for flying kites on the local commons. But Herbert's young bride wants him with no kite strings-nor silver cords-attached. When he refuses to cut loose, she kicks him out and plays...