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Some of Rio's most recent crimes have reached the top strata of lurid violence. Samples: 1) borrowing a time-worn page from the Aztecs, a boy cut out his beloved's heart; 2) using a sharp hatchet, a man chopped his wife into small pieces as she lay in bed with their two-year-old daughter. Last week the Latin American Congress of Criminologists picked Rio as the site of their 1946 convention...
Patriotism has become a devil in disguise. We find ourselves talking glibly of re-educating the Germans and the Japanese. Isn't it time to change a few of our own time-worn conceptions...
Today as the House votes on the continuance of the Reciprocal Trade Pacts, time-worn ruts in the path of economic thought threaten to direct the course of American foreign policy. Right wheels of protectionism and isolationism indicate "no renewal." Left wing ruts are only lightly traced into American economic soil although sanctioned by both idealism and naked self interest. Unbelievable as it may seem at the present moment the ghost of an outmoded concept walks politically in our midst...
Smacking thoroughly of Irving Berlin from its thirteen songs to its superficial plot, "Holiday Inn" is the sure-fire musical it has to be. Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby supply able song-and-dance accompaniment,a t the same time filling the order for time-worn romantic conflict. Round one goes to Astaire when the tranquil night club trio of Crosby, Astaire, and Virginia Dale splits up, Crosby retiring to a farm, while his hoofer pal wins the gal and goes on hoofing...
...Foot in Heaven" is a lot better than it ought to be. Basically it's nothing more than the time-worn saga of the kindly country minister--he could just as well have been a doctor or a lawyer--and his self-sacrificing wife who endure a multitude of hardships and finally win the happiness they're looking for. It's an old story; and when it's carried out at too great length, as is done in this film, it's an old story; and when it's carried out at too great length, as is done in this...