Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South Africa. During six days there, we were guests of the Union of South Africa and our host was Minister of Justice and Interior Harry Lawrence. I am sure I speak for my colleagues when I express my gratitude for a singularly exciting and enlightening trip and a too brief but very interesting look at South Africa's principal cities...
...Brief Glow. The horrors of Beria's camps and inquisitions have been told by David Dallin and Boris Nicolaevsky, by Victor Kravchenko and Vladimir Tchernavin. These atrocities are so vast that, like Himmler's corpse factories, they are almost unbelievable. Meanwhile, a smaller, gentler story gives a notion of life in the police state...
...kept there for four years, brought back to Moscow and released without hearing, trial or explanation. An American was with her when she met an old friend in a Moscow street. He described the scene which followed: "Plainly, the friend thought she had encountered a ghost. There was a brief glow of happiness on the faces of the two women, then they fell into a humdrum conversation about the weather. A few minutes later, they parted on this unspoken note of things it was better not to speak about...
...Dozen Don Quixotes. Except for a brief respite after the revolution of 1848, Daumier waged a running battle with the censors. When they bore down too hard, he turned from political to social satire, illustrated his favorite novel Don Quixote a dozen times, and ultimately got around to the easel-paintings-the blacksmiths and laundresses, as dignified as Rembrandt's illustrations of the Bible-on which his reputation as a 19th Century master largely rests...
...novel purported to be a serious treatment of the problem of marriage in America. The picture makes only a taken stab at this theme. Tracy solemnly remarks at several points that divorces are all to frequent, and a few brief scenes are tossed in to show just how nasty' wealthy middle-aged couples can be to each other. MGM does not venture further than this. Instead, it presents a moderately dreary love story and allows Lana Turner to run wild. She wallops a home run in a softball game, gawks at a specimen of modern art in New York, loses...