Word: illusionality
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From Illusion to Reality. The U.S. record since V-J day was a record of failure to seize & hold the initiative. Next to Marshall himself, there was no one better qualified to understand that record, and explain it, than Bob Lovett. As Under Secretary, he had been for the past...
Relentless (Columbia). Robert Young, Marguerite Chapman and Barton MacLane in a Technicolored scrimmage for gold. Their work and an unusually good production give this slick western an illusion of quality it doesn't really have.
Black Bart (Universal-International). Yvonne de Carlo (in glowing Technicolor) as Lola Montez; Dan Duryea and Jeffrey Lynn as rival swains and bandits. There is little illusion of quality about this western, and too little of the deadpan kidding that has made some other De Carlo pictures a pleasure.
Author Louis Chavance, who developed this cruel design for drama from an actual incident, and Henri-Georges Clouzot, who directed the film, have taken shrewd advantage of rich possibilities. They have put such intelligence into their melodrama that it often gives the illusion of transcending melodrama. Their film has speed...
Juenger envisaged a new world of anonymous, depersonalized robot-men immersed in the processes of technology and disciplined into grey armies of soldier-workers. In the age of the machine, individualism seemed to him a sentimental illusion, morality a superfluous gesture. All that counted in his nightmare world was steel...