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...former star pupil (Jeffrey Lynn) and his pretty wife (Geraldine Fitzgerald) whose happy home has been upset by a prowling, pernicious femme fatale (Mona Maris). Mitchell tracks her down with such professorial precision, makes such painfully punctilious notes on her case that his conclusion that she is loaded with "greed, selfishness and brutality" will come as a surprise to no one. Nor will his eventual course of action. Chief merit of the picture: the professor doesn't discover at the end that his heart is all right...
...there is no hope for the vanquished in a social revolution except to start life over again in a new country. Says Author Roberts through the mouth of troubled Oliver Wiswell: "God grant to all peoples a Wilderness Trail at whose end they can find surcease from demagogues, interference, greed, intolerance and politicians...
...have become soft and soggy with temporary abundance. Even the enormous debt stirs only the few. We are satisfied with a promised security, unearned and easy. Our thoughts teem with greed and every man for himself. May I say that is not the American way. Our country was not founded upon those ideas, but by striving and toiling and saving and building-a unity among men with a definite goal-America...
trust. It bore the first onslaughts of criticism, lawsuits, public investigation by people to whom the unfamiliar monster was "a conspiracy, a dark plot born in greed."* Greedy men exist, observes Nevins, but they seldom pile up colossal fortunes. Rockefeller himself said that his great aim was "achievement," and, says Biographer Nevins, "the statement was true." He adds: "We must not forget that Rockefeller began to give as soon as he began to earn...
...magnifying glass, Eugene O'Neill has been writing the dramatic history of an American family from 1775 to 1932. O'Neill explained that he was working on scenarios for nine plays, each one complete, but all part of a cycle. The first two would be called Greed of the Meek and And Give Me Death. Last week the Theatre Guild announced that the cycle would be called A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed, that the titles of the other seven plays would be: A Touch of the Poet, More Stately Mansions, The Calms of Capricorn, The Earth...