Word: ethicality
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Perhaps television, or a newly-found and lamentable boredom with the bizarre, have changed Alfred Hitchcock's movie-making ethic. At any rate, this latest chip from the ingenious block has carved a new grain--the obvious, and very disappointing, situation comedy. The unmistakable Hitchcock touches remain, but the strained and tiresome have displaced the starting and quasiserious...
...Jaffe's role as the cool and precise master-mind of a jewel robbery is well-conceived. Jaffe is not shallow; he learns that an old man must not think about young girls, and seems quite willing to accept this sage ethic. Louis Calhern's part involves an early and unlikely double-cross from which, as far as the story goes, he never recovers. But he, too, sees his errors, commits suicide, and the Witches are all happy again. playing at being Calhern's moll, a young starlet named Marilyn Monroe in her first performance reaches the peak...
...striking. The effects of psychological torture on men of intelligence and faith have been recurrently evident in mock trials, both in Poland and Nuremberg, which first suggested the idea to her. The Prisoner, however, identifies no nation nor name. It is essentially a film which reaffirms a Christian ethic in any totalitarian state in any time...
...fact also remains that today's average Mississippi Negro has found the last remaining way to beat Twentieth Century Responsibility. The old Protestant Ethic has passed him by. Even considering his economic position he pays little taxes (92 percent of West Point's taxes are paid by the minority white population); he avails himself of common law marriage, thus avoiding financial and legal responsibility (80 percent of the state's Negro marriages are so contracted); and he is not expected to be a steady employee...
Turning from the financial to the psychological ledger, the book suggests one conclusion: the funeral ethic of 20th century America makes the most serious attempt in history to blink the ultimate fact. With its primped remains and imitation-grass-carpeted graves, it sets out to pull death's sting and all too often removes its significance, too. In "modern mortuary method," the funeral sermon is frequently nothing more than God's commercial, grooved in, as the authors explain, to "expedite the mourning process," and grief is classified as a "problem of bereavement." Instead of eternal life, the customer...