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...sentimentalizing Michele into a hero of the oppressed, or by treating him merely as a vicious criminal. Instead, he has looked at him steadily with profound sympathy but also with implicit disapproval. The Brigand, as a social document, may help explain why many Italians have snapped at the Communist bait. As a novel, it is an honest and affecting picture of human beings in travail...
Then there is the Bait and Bullet section, the Ledyard Canoe Club with 16 boats and a shed, the Mountaineering Club. Dartmouth Underground or the Speleological Club for Spelunkers which explores caverns, and the Natural History Club...
Here big Boy Scouts from all colleges compete, but the affair is strictly male, Canoe races, fly and bait casting contests, fire building tilts, wood chopping and back-packing races, and pulp wood throwing contests are featured...
Leaning heavily on the crutch of slapstick, Capra works hard to manufacture laughs out of such feeble stuff as the roistering antics of a drunken Irishman, the flowering of frustrated Alexis into hip-slinging whistle-bait, the arch effeminacy of the protocol expert at society weddings. He stages the film's one bright song (In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening) with the same frenzied use of silly props that he displayed in Riding High. Young Italian Soprano Anna Maria (The Medium) Alberghetti sings well in a long opening sequence that has nothing to do with the rest...
...message reads like all other Soviet "peace" proposals, but it also includes a muddily worded suggestion for prohibition of atomic weapons and "establishment of inspection over the implementation of such prohibition." In the past, the Russians have fought any proposal for inspection tooth & nail. There was enough bait in the proposal to make the West look up with interest-and caution...