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Italy gave the world Pagliacci, the story of a man who laughs even in the face of tragedy. But the sharp, austere features of De Gasperi (cartoonists like to depict him as a wise, great-beaked black crow with lively eyes behind huge spectacles) remain glum even in moments of pleasure, and only his intense eyes glow. He has no notable administrative talent, and economists have been heard to mutter that he sometimes seems to be "an economic illiterate." He wears his imperfections humbly, like a suit of well-worn clothing, as if to suggest that attempting to discard them...
...James Mason, but the Desert Fox has undergone a change of dramatic color: no longer a generous desert fighter, he is now an arrogant and not very likable character.* The Desert Fox focused on the battle of El Alamein, but The Desert Rats flashes back some 18 months to depict the 1941 siege of Tobruk, where the Nazi blitzkrieg was stopped for the first time. Against this factual background, the scenarists have set a fictional plot about a tough British captain (Richard Burton) with a soft spot in his heart for his alcoholic old ex-schoolteacher (Robert Newton), a private...
...mysterious about France," he wrote, "is its impotence. It is that lucidity is followed by nothing. If you listen to an old minister, he will explain to you with serenity what could have been done. If you have occasion to meet a man today in power, he will brilliantly depict what must be done. The ideas are seductive, the directions are clearly fixed, the plans are meticulous; France comprehends the universe. And then nothing, or nearly nothing, is produced...
...cover, the Saturday Evening Post usually runs paintings which depict imaginary characters in some folksy, whimsical or appealing phase of daily U.S. life. This week its readers got a start. The Post's cover was in the tradition in one respect: it was painted by Norman Rockwell, the artist who has done more Post covers than anybody else. But the cover was a portrait of a real person: Dwight David Eisenhower. Announced the pro-Eisenhower Post: it was the first time in the Post's 224-year history that it had devoted its whole cover to a picture...
...steel, the fourth generation which forged weapons, I should like to add one thing. Never in my parents' home . . . did I hear one word or experience one act which welcomed or promoted any war at any place or at any time. The symbol of our house does not depict a cannon, but three interlocked wheels, emblem of peaceful trade...