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...hardly touched them physically. So what was it within themselves that had vanished? It was fantastic to believe that all that two people had shared . . . could be turned and twisted, blown to nothing by a war." How the war had done it or why is hardly clearer to the reader than it is to Polly. One suspects that it is not too clear to Mr. Marquand either. B.F.'s Daughter, an unsatisfying novel, has none of the sharpness that made The Late George Apley a definitive picture of one kind of Boston life...
...more letters or cards we receive the clearer idea we will get of the situation," Campbell statement continued. "Such complaints are the only way an investigating group can know whether the H.A.A. is, in fact, "doing its best" for the undergraduate...
...picture itself may give a clearer idea than all this of why such things happen, but only under the most patient analysis. Actually, the plot's crazily mystifying, nightmare blur is an asset, and only one of many. By far the strongest is Bogart, who can get into a minor twitch of the mouth the force of a slug from an automatic. Another is Producer-Director Howard Hawks's fellow feeling for the Chandler world: even on the chaste screen Hawks manages to get down a good deal of the glamorous tawdriness of big-city low life, discreetly...
...Italy the connection between UNRRA aid and the kind of politics that is played for keeps was clearer than in most other countries. When LaGuardia told Premier Alcide de.Gasperi that world food prospects did not justify a recent increase in the bread ration. De Gasperi and his Christian Democratic colleagues made speeches emphasizing the relation between living standards and the Communist campaign to discredit democracy...
Juke finished his fourth drink. His eyes were clearer now and he could talk more distinctly...