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Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall is a newspaperman (Detroit News) and a World War I doughboy who became the Army's chief historian in Europe in World War II. As historian, he quickly learned that the usual military records convey neither the look nor the sound of battle. But by questioning everyone from rifleman to army group commander-and fitting the answers together-"Slam" Marshall soon developed a way of describing war, e.g., Island Victory, Bastogne, that made other service histories sound like business balance sheets...
...perhaps because it has fewer solo passages and thus is more often performed by choruses; perhaps also because it maintains a gayer, more spontaneous mood than the second set, composed five years later. It is this second set, however, which left the more profound impression. Its gloomy, anguished texts convey a dramatic unity not present in the other and the musical treatment is appropriately more intense. Although all the numbers are still in triple meter, the light-hearted waltz spirit is no longer so pronounced; in its place appears a new profundity culminating in an epilogue which is no longer...
These stories range from a subtle clash between occupied and occupiers in Germany to a fine case history in boorish cruelty and prejudice in a New England factory town. In the 15 brief pages of A Modest Proposal Author Stafford can convey the look, the heat, the boredom, and the sharp antagonisms being played out at a Virgin Islands hotel peopled by divorcées. Like the rest of these tales of interior sickness, it is a sure antidote to complacency. Like most of them, it pokes at the heart, but never makes it miss a beat...
...also clarified its stand on "controversial" writers. Said the office of new Information Chief Robert L. Johnson: "We are interested only in what the particular publication says. A writer who has been criticized is not him self forbidden. But if a person puts out a publication designed to convey Communist propaganda, it will, of course, be disqualified...
...infallible barometer. When Catherine, the plain, painfully shy heiress, decides at last between marriage and spinsterhood, the audience must be completely braced for her decision; they must feel an unusual emotion compounded of pity, irony, disappointment, and pride. Because the actors in Idler's production of The Heiress convey all this and more, the performance is a definite success...