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Cardiff's economy in leaving out the first twenty years of the Morel family saga (as well as many of the lesser characters) is well justified, for the structure of the novel emerges all the more clearly. With considerable skill, he balances Mrs. Morel's almost morbid domination of Paul's sensitive and passionate nature with the physical inhibitions produced in Miriam by her mother's puritanical beliefs. The novel is rather humorless; Cardiff creates several badly needed moments of comic relief--such as an address from a stout suffragette. Most important, he never loses sight of Mrs. Morel...
...fourth story, slightly out of line with the others, demonstrates the triumph of domestic virtue over heartless capitalism, spinning out the saga of a young couple who are wed secretly because his company forbids employees to marry until they have been on the payroll for three years. It will be dropped from the picture when Co-Producer Joe Levine (TIME, Feb. 24, 1961) releases it in the U.S. next July...
...S.A.O. has singled out Italian newsmen as prime prey. Algeria is heavily populated with Italian immigrants, and the S.A.O. assumed that the Italian press would sympathize with its cause. But Italian radio broadcasts (easily heard in Algiers) and imported Italian papers were disillusioning, and with disillusionment began a saga of terror...
...this good news has been pushed off the front page by the saga of Harry Weinberg, new president of the Fifth Avenue Coach Lines, and his one-man war against traffic sanity in New York. Weinberg, who took over the line several months ago from a management that confessed to its own incompetence, has proved an impossible man to deal with. His intransigence has resulted in the present strike of the Transit Workers against his line, and a new political struggle over the line's future between Mayor Wagner and Albany Republicans...
...finally, in this day of studio flacks and Hollywood gossipists, it is hard to find something new and true to say about overpublicized people, but the saga of the three Fondas. Henry,Daughter Jane and Son Peter, makes a human report of mutual admiration and mutual rivalry in SHOW BUSINESS...