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...driven through his hand, for the "eminent jurist" who bit off the tip of his crushed finger, for the woman who squeezed herself headfirst into a blazing furnace. What is the explanation for such indifference to pain, Drs. Ford & Wilkins could not say, decided that it may be akin to such mysteries as congenital color blindness, word deafness and word blindness...
...pioneering, but he does not see labor's pressing problems permitting a long span of spade work and defeats as a preliminary to labor rule in the distant future. Unlike the A. F. of L. leaders, who look upon the possibility of independent political action by labor as akin to Communism, Lewis does not bar the possible formation of a new party in which labor will dominate or be an important partner...
...conversation precisely where it had left off. Scholarly by temperament, a sagacious commentator on Latin poets, Greek dramatists, French fiction, he combines these academic pursuits with a love of the theatre, writes comedies (The Crime in the Whistler Room, This Room, This Gin and These Sandwiches] in which characters akin to those of F. Scott Fitzgerald are shown wound up with less outspoken intellectuals. In his desire to see the U. S. at firsthand Critic Wilson once bought a motorcycle, gave it up after he had run into a ditch and been arrested because he had neglected...
...modern neuroses, at its worst the book is only a variation on the case histories in Freudian source books. Again, as with the first volume of his tetralogy, publishers in the East refused to touch the book, leaving Idaho's Caxton Printers to take a moral risk somewhat akin to that taken by the publishers of Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover...
...favorite poser of slick-paper fiction, viz., whether there is a spark in that old campus romance yet, these ten years later. Its answer is a heart-warming yes, echoing around the shaded quiet of a i Vermont college town. Producer Walter ; Wanger has a theory of picture-making akin to Baseball's immortal Willie Keeler's formula for a good batting average ("Hit 'em where they ain't"). Hence this film, a reworking of the essentials of Allene Corliss' Summer Lightning (cloudbursts & all) aims soberly at the heart where most other cinemakers would...