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...novel of a New Englander going dutifully to seed. Mr. Marquand has told his story three times (the others: The Late George Apley, Wickford Point); Director King Vidor had only one shot at his. His ending is box office, his story not sharply pointed, but he does manage to convey the airless but comfortable feeling of Boston, the pitifully habit-bound horizon of his Pulham (Robert Young), and to turn out a half-dozen sequences that are superb cinema...
...assiduous concubine," who could not understand that "he had succumbed through boredom." Once Byron showed her some of his sister's letters. Claire told Mary and Shelley that they were written in cipher. Shelley saw nothing unusual in that, thought the ciphers "most likely were used to convey news of his [Byron's] illegitimate children." While Claire went off to England to have one by him, Byron went off to Italy...
Agee's bad manners, exhibitionism and verbosity are a sort of author's curse at his own foredoomed failure to convey all he feels. Conventional acceptance of his book would be "the one unmistakable symptom that salvation is beaten again." His real aim is to enforce the realization that the Gudgers, the Ricketts and the Woods, whose hopeless, subhuman lives he reverently exposes, are now alive, human brothers of the reader, sharers of "certain normal predicaments of human divinity...
REFERENCE "PERU CONTINUES TO FIGHT ECUADOR" TIME, SEPT.1, ALLOW ME TO CONVEY YOU MY APPRECIATION FOR IMPARTIAL UNABRIDGED ACCOUNT DEPLORABLE EVENTS AGAINST CONTINENTAL SOLIDARITY GOOD NEIGHBORLINESS WHICH HAS JUSTLY ALARMED OUR CONTINENT. ECUADOR CONTINUED BEING SUBJECT UNPROVOKED AGGRESSIONS BY PERU'S ARMED FORCES ALONG WHOLE 600-MILE FRONTIER NOTWITHSTANDING TRUCES JULY 26 AND 31 THROUGH GOOD OFFICES UNISTATES, ARGENTINA, BRAZIL. TIME'S TRUTHFUL STORY VIVIDLY PAINTS PERU'S INVASION AND BLITZ METHODS USED FOR OCCUPATION WHOLE PROVINCE OF PEACEFUL DEMOCRATIC ECUADOR...
Because he has worked on it only since his escape, His Honor's English is still a little jagged, but he can convey what he wants to say almost perfectly and enjoys telling how the Greeks took shoals of prisoners...