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...something to worry about. Starting with the promise that a college is as good as its students, those students are worth looking at. Most of us are more sophisticated than our predecessors, ante bellum, less enchanted with the world and with ourselves, with an easy cynicism which passes for understanding. We know a sinecure when we see one, and also a Stopping Stone. And we know that four years of Dartmouth can mean both. We're more interested in Security (nee Getting-Rich) than public service or someone else's minimum subsistence. We've watched the College turn into...
Milland turns up as a vaudeville trick-shot artist in a post-bellum copper-mining town where Villain MacDonald Carey is whipping up anti-Confederate feeling for crass economic reasons. The ex-colonel rallies the underprivileged Southerners, converts Adventuress Lamarr to righteousness and does his bit to bind the nation's wounds by quoting Lincoln on "malice toward none." What is especially depressing about Copper Canyon is not so much its dreary reprise of movies best forgotten as its dreary portent of movies still to come...
...shrewishness anger him into desertion, while she battles with sinters and adverse public opinion. He later returns disguised as a puppeteer to re-enact their marriage and separation with puppets. After the shoemaker is assured of his wife's fidelity, he removes his disguise. The status quo ante bellum is then resumed as the shoemaker's prodigious wife is provoked to throw a fit at the final curtain...
John C. Calhoun: American Portrait, by Margaret Coit. A spirited biography of the great ante bellum South Carolina statesman who, as Congressman, Secretary of War and Vice President, was the champion of states' rights and of the South's slave-owning aristocracy (TIME, March...
John C. Calhoun: American Portrait, by Margaret Coit. A spirited biography of the great ante bellum South Carolina statesman who, as Congressman, Secretary of War and Vice President, was the champion of states' rights and of the South's slave-owning aristocracy (TIME, March...