Word: clarions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...customary for election editorials to be dark and passionate appeals to the faithful, clarion blasts on the trumpet of partisanship. During the campaign itself they probably even convince a few people, though their main role is to stir the vitals of the already convinced. As such there is nothing wrong with them--indeed, like the election campaigns themselves, they satisfy the animal urge for pure combat which lies behind the veneer of civilization...
Another weak point in this letter is Mr. Landis' clarion for party regularity. Control of the Senate, he says, depends on three seats; sound foreign policy demands a Democratic Senate; vote Democratic. This bit of logic ignores an important fact: Lodge has voted with Democrats on foreign policy as often as Kennedy, and each foolish Lodge vote can be matched with a Kennedy blunder...
...years past, the Deans have reacted to parietal rule appeals like a war-horse to the clarion's blare. Believing it their solemn duty to protect undergraduate morality (and presumably the revered name of Harvard as well), they have rejected all pleas for parietal leniency with remarkable persistence...
...Clarion Call is an amusing study in pitch black and snow white, with Richard Wildmark slamming women and manhandling kittens with finesse and obvious relish. In The Last Leaf, Gregory Ratoff is the idealistic but frustrated abstractionist, born twenty years too soon; here, the part happily becomes more Ratoff than O. Henry...
...jeweled combs for his wife (Jeanne Grain) for Christmas, while she sells her beautiful hair to buy him a platinum watch fob; The Last Leaf, in which an unsuccessful artist (Gregory Ratoff) paints his masterpiece to keep a dying girl (Anne Baxter) alive; The Clarion Call, about a cop with a conscience (Dale Robertson) who has to arrest an old chum (Richard Widmark...