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...down from epic size by constant acid scrutiny. But it doesn't take three hours and any number of lavish sets to advance such a relatively simple argument--Stevens, as a matter of fact, clinches the point in one short scene which shows the group of ill-bred oil millionaires milling about in a hotel room before the test-imonial dinner. As a result, the film gives the impression that neither the director nor the screen-writers ever made up their minds whether they were producing an epic or a piece of social commentary...
...even tell a King from a Knave." Most of Edward's biographers have had the same trouble: none has satisfactorily explained how and why the monarch whom Rudyard Kipling called "a corpulent voluptuary" was also modern Britain's most agile royal diplomat and plenipotentiary. Now, Boston-bred Virginia Cowles has shown that an American woman may look at a King with more understanding than many a Briton. Married to former Under Secretary of State for Air Aidan Crawley, Author Cowles has been a newspaper correspondent in Europe since the Spanish civil war. The excellence of her biography lies...
...described Titoism as a national Communist movement which made no fundamental changes in government aims or structures. Anti-Stalinism, he said, has bred a divided loyalty between nationalist and Communist, a greater degree of self-expression among the people, and greater attention to the needs of the population...
...posture not only was ludicrous," the newspaper charged, "but Harvard ran out on a contract, a cheap, ill-bred gesture...
...decorously genteel to the point of inaudibility. Critics who for more than a decade have touted him as a new Stendhal are simply chasing the wrong literary genealogy. In the Snow-Galsworthy vision, the middle class can have no Stendhalian tragedies, only troubles. The scent of Homecoming is well-bred but unmistakable: it's Yardley Soap opera...