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...What still sustains such Verne classics as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and The Secret of the Island is 1) the vigor and quality of Verne's talent, 2) the Homeric nature of his heroes, villains, and imagined perils. This is epitomized in Captain Nemo, dauntless commander of the submarine Nautilus...
...Securities and Exchange Commission in 1937, thereupon unleashed, in his own word, "sulphurous" attack on Wall Street. Although he had never been a judge, Roosevelt appointed him to the court on the retirement of Louis Brandeis. On the bench, pencil behind ear, hair awry, Presbyterian Douglas became a dauntless proponent of labor, civil rights, wrote armloads of decisions. Holding fast to his basic position on the left, he became, with Black, the court's leading dissenter...
...ships began turning into the wind. At 1024 the order to start launching came down from Akagi's bridge by voice tube, and the air officer flapped a white flag. At that instant, slanting and howling down at 70° out of light clouds, the SBD Dauntless dive bombers of Enterprise and Yorktown bore down undetected and unopposed. "Helldivers!" screamed a lookout on Akagi. Within minutes the dive bombers scored a fabulous nine hits and mortally wounded three of the Japanese carriers. Within hours, Akagi, Kaga and Soryu were on the bottom...
...them semiautomatics: "They originate completely automatically in the blind. By manipulating my form in such a manner, a lot of images suggest themselves. Ordinarily, one image is predominant. This one I choose." Among the images are a pain-racked Mater Dolorosa, a witty, stylized Geisha, a twirling Dancer, a dauntless Rodinish woman, her hair flying, fists raised, called Defense. The lines of the figures flow freely and lyrically, and most of them have a baroque turbulence. They express a new Lipchitz, but one who refuses to stay put. "I do not intend to turn this process into a durable...
...might do well to note that once again the dauntless Mr. Magoo was the bright spot of the evening. Indeed, were it not for our nearsighted saviour, Brattle patrons might think that the motion picture distributors were giving the Brattle little but second rate material. Those of us whose interests extend beyond UPA cartoons, travelogues, and re-releases of originally poor films are becoming discouraged...