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Veritably, The Lost Moment critique, though divertingly atmospheric, was a lost moment, for such abstruse phraseology, almost senza cerimonia, as it were, substituted a fabulous if rather obfuscated Choctaw for simple English though the need for the substitution remains ineluctably TIME'S. Well would we, with James, delicately strangle the scrivener of that apotheosis of the superficial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 29, 1947 | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...doubt of it, a memorable thing to have, at one heave of the pick, dug out the entire psychological mosaic of this perfect, almost, book; and no less memorable, in a filmic way, to have- senza cerimonia, as it were-substituted a pleasant, if rather extended charade. Though the need for the substitution remains obscure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 8, 1947 | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

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