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Fahrenheit 451. The Red Beast roars as it leaps into the sunlight. Thirty feet Tom nose to tail and wrapped in scarlet p1ates of steel, it hurtles down the highway at 100 m.p.h. Outside a new apartment house, it screams to a rubber-ripping stop and flings nine tiny men in tight black uniforms off its big red back. The men crash into a flat, turn drawers and closets inside out, carry off a heap of hidden books, whip out a handsome copper flamethrower, burn all the books to fine grey soot...
...Beast and its hellish brood are the principal constituents of Fahrenheit 451, a number that both denotes the flash point of paper and identifies one of the innumerable book-burning brigades set up after World War III by a dictatorship determined to put out the fire of freedom in the human heart. Assembled first in that overproductive fiend factory, the fantascientific brain of Author Ray Bradbury, the brigade has now been refurbished by France's Francois Truffaut in a weirdly gay little picture that assails with both horror and humor all forms of tyranny over the mind...
...superb--the parts all meshed and precision triumphed over muddle. The programmatic aspect of the music (each movement represents a scene, such as the awakening of Corelli by the muses) was forthrightly but tastefully exploited, creating an atmosphere without making the piece into some kind of caged antique beast...
...debut giving a lecture on the war, complete with chalk and blackboard. He was such a hit that against his better judgment he was soon shifted to television news. "It was a time," he says, "when no self-respecting newsman wanted anything to do with this new electronic beast...
Cronkite was not long in getting the beast under control. In 1952, CBS News Director Sig Mickelson picked him to anchor the network's coverage of the national political conventions, and he did such a workmanlike job that he found himself in the top rank of newscasters. Suddenly he was a star. He began to have his own news shows-Twentieth Century and Eyewitness to History...