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...century might have left the U.S. as bare and barren as a desert. From the time of the first settlers, Americans had operated on a theory of chop and run; they had none of the Western European's respect for the wealth of forests. The mythological hero, Paul Bunyan, was a logger who uprooted trees with his bare hands...
...animated film is not necessarily a subdivision of slapstick. Though one or two U.P.A. cartoons have suggested the possibility, Halas and Batchelor prove with this picture that animation can cope with serious subjects as well as with slight ones. Next H. & B. production: a feature treatment of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress...
...praise him. Caesar indeed-for you have not only carried on war but have written your own commentary." Churchill rose to echoing cheers and stood in the wave of applause with his hands splayed across his paunch, beaming over his spectacles. He inspected carefully the ornate book, inscribed with Bunyan's quotation and signed by nearly all MPs. "This is to me the most memorable public occasion of my life," said the man who has known many memorable occasions. "No one has ever received a similar mark of honor before. There has not been anything like it in British...
...John Bunyan...
...Illinois State Library in Springfield launched a campaign "to make it impossible for our children to obtain smut." Among the first volumes marked with the words "This book is for adult readers": John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, some of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales. Needed for a youngster who wants to get any of them: a librarian's decision...