Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many age-old problems appear around the perimeter of the film's main dramatic theme. A religious allegory, "The Informer" can be thought of in terms of sin and redemption, the redemption coming in the last agonies of death. The end comes in a church, where Gyppo obtains forgiveness from the dead man's mother, and with a cry of what may be ecstasy as well as pain, dies. The psychological, religious, and metaphysical themes are deeply intercating, but on top of everything, "The Informer" is a great and dramatic story...
While "Gus the Great" is an accurate period piece, replete with all the false morality and ostentation overflowing from the Victorian age, the characters surrounding Gus Burgoyne provide the real heart and value of the book. Mr. Duncan understands the people in his novel; he allows each the perspective of a lifetime and successfully defines the mixture of lunacy and showmanship that makes a trooper. A keen-witted horse trader from Vermont, a bewildered pair of acrobats, and a lion tamer with a complex for abusing both cats and women are all drawn with infinite shading and welded together through...
...grew up in the placid, self-satisfied world of 19th Century physics. He became a professor at the University of Kiel, married the daughter of a Munich banker, played the piano and composed music, lived the good intellectual life of Germany's pre-World War I golden age. Outwardly, he did not appear to be a world-shaking revolutionist...
...stayed there ever since." He bitterly regrets the day "the male and female crooner, or moaner, began to trouble the night air. . . . 'Craziness' in entertainment . . . is still the general note today. Nothing must mean anything-a reflection, no doubt, of the general life of this age. Bat's wings, bat's eyes, and bat's brains...
...Shoaf over." cried the Sage of the Age. "This game may be no Frizzle, but I think it would be Shafer if I start Drennan now before they Pennel our heads...