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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little the air of a case history, yet without quite enough documentation, let alone drama. The play is accurate and revealing, but only in the way a blueprint is. Gide's novel, though not very creative, is much less explicit and more complex; in the play every character-corrupt Biskran houseboy, self-accepting homosexual shepherd-articulates a philosophy, is "placed" in the moral landscape. Everything is formulated rather than expressed...
...Page to the screen, Charles Lederer did a mediocre job of changing title and a superb job of not changing the dialogue or action. It's still a caricature of the men who write newspapers when not playing poker or cracking insoluble cases for policemen who are almost as corrupt as they are incompetent. Set mostly in the press room of a city jail, the picture dotes on hardboiled softies screaming "hold the presses, tear out the front page," and other spurious journalism...
...Strongman Batista." If the policy which seems to have dictated my arrest is continued, however, this "headache" will prove indeed to be a very minor one-not only for the State Department, but for the American people. They may awake one day to realize that the support of corrupt, bloody and hated dictators like Batista, who ran on a Communist "popular front" in 1940, supported a Communist coalition in 1944, and was elected largely with the help of Communist rats as Senator in 1948-will provide both a hotbed for Red propaganda, and a terrible undertone of anti-American sentiment...
...complain that favoritism is involved, since the paper's determined crusading makes it a more logical candidate for the prizes than other papers (Publisher Pulitzer stays out of the discussion when the P-D is a candidate). P-D men have won prizes for everything from forcing a corrupt federal judge to resign and the exposure of the Teapot Dome scandals by the late Paul Y. Anderson to a series on the Depression '30s by the late Charles G. Ross, who became President Truman's press secretary after leaving the PD. The paper itself has won five...
...this man embodies is the oldest witness of Western civilization. One of his predecessors faced Attila on his march to Rome; another preached the first Crusade against Islam; another excommunicated Martin Luther; another was taken prisoner by Napoleon.* It is an office that has often been near destruction, often corrupt, often hated. Nevertheless, Viva il Papa, Viva il Papa! shouted the crowds in Rome. They were cheering not only the office, not only a faith, not only the past in which they glory. They were cheering not only the Pontifex Maximus as they have almost always cheered...