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...voice was shrill and hostile-far from the bland, candid tones which had once beguiled Chinese and unwary Westerners alike into misreading the nature and underestimating the strength of the Communists. The message he uttered came straight from the Kremlin's Mimeograph room (see above). But for the first time, as Chou took pains to point out, Red China was sitting with the big powers...
Diary of a Country Priest (Brandon Films) is an attempt to photograph a religious experience-an attempt in some respects as naive as training a telephoto lens on the firmament in the hope of catching a candid shot of God. And yet, Director Robert Bresson is a man whose errors are more interesting than the hits of most other directors. In this French film, the outward and visible symbols he finds for the inward and spiritual states of the famous (1937) Georges Bernanos novel are vivid enough to excite the intellect, though they do not always agitate the heart...
...Hate Communism, But . . ." Nothing in the diaries so far shows that Ickes was a great man. They help bear out his reputation for personal honesty, his enormous capacity for work, his dogged loyalty to old-fashioned leftish principles. He was candid enough to say of other New Deal liberals in general: "There personally was more comfort in going along with a bunch of reactionaries who knew where they were and where they were going than in trying to get along with a bunch of prima donnas...
General Clark never got his way, but from his frustrating experiences with Communists in Europe and Asia has come a book that, more authoritatively than any other, shows what the U.S. was up against in Korea. Candid and clear, From the Danube to the Yalu has the added advantage of being written by a man who is no longer on active duty. Retired in 1953, Mark Clark, 58, is now president of South Carolina's historic military college, The Citadel...
...have no idea how repugnant this is-to go over my life. It is impossible to be completely candid. It's an art and it takes technique, and you have to learn it. If you've lived a life that isn't free and open with people, it's almost impossible to unsnarl it, to unravel the ball of twine...