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...shocked to note that the CRIMSON has fallen heir to Dr. Hunt's racist propaganda, ("Girls May Become Lanky Hillbillies," Jan. 14). As a descendant of that small but courageous band of Frenchmen who migrated to Canada in the early 16th century, I find your pseudo-scientific comments a blot on the blossom of French-Canadian womanhood...
Even had Radulovich's relatives proved to be card carrying party members, it would be wrong to so blot his record with this summary action. It is the mark of totalitarian institutions to attack a man for his family's political defection. When the Air Force received accusations against his family, it was proper to check on Radulovich's own political sentiments. But when they were cleared absolutely, the case should have ended. Guilt by bloodstream is no more impressive a condemnation than is guilt by casual association...
...teenage daughter and son, and sets himself up in the budding cottonseed oil business. But the other Currains lack Trav's gift for walking clean-footed through the ' mire of Reconstruction days. Wife Enid dawdles in bed till noon and takes an occasional snifter of opium to blot out the memory of magnolias. Daughter Lucy commits the heresy of falling in love with a Yankee lieutenant from Maine. (Trav actually likes the young man.) Son Peter turns Dixie chauvinist and joins one of a dozen Klannish clubs bent on terrorizing Negroes out of their newly gained rights...
...talent is all too human, has never developed a sure touch in these translations. Columbia's success in bringing James Jones's bestselling novel to the screen may be due partly to the fact that it was hardly a novel at all; it was an obscene, extravagant blot of ink, pressed between covers into something like a literary Rorschach sample. Every reader saw in it something different, but most agreed that it contained a tremendously vivid and exciting picture of men in the mass, and added, up to as powerful an expression of love-hate...
...legacy of Valley Forge, the answer must be no ... For Americans of the Valley Forge heritage . . . it would seem to me that the promulgation of the current truce terms without so much as consulting the most valiant contenders for world freedom in the world today is a blot on the escutcheon of moral America from which it indeed may never recover...