Word: dreamland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over the inevitable slow spots. It bogs and badly after starting off at a tremendous clip. The middle reels, where any normally intelligent gagman would be clearing the decks for a final smashing boffola, are gummed up by a miserably dull jail routine that talks the audience straight into dreamland. And they sleep right on through to the bitter end. Cary Grant stars opposite Hepburn and is charming and funny as always. Katherine Hepburn has sinus trouble...
...further pointed up by the fact that the other writers in this book deliberately turn their backs on it. André Gide and Noel Devaulx hide their talented heads in reminiscences of life before World War I. Nature-Boys Jean Giono and André Chamson wallow in a woody dreamland of hefty peasants and prime wine. Only Jean Cassou gives an impression of both vitality and veracity. His macabre story is an up-to-date version of Romeo & Juliet, in which Juliet ("a nice, retiring person . . . the sort who hates being conspicuous") is put to shame by the amorous frenzy...
John Moore's studies of men and manners in the Cotswolds, as presented in Brensham Village and its predecessor The Fair Field (TIME, Dec. 9, 1946), will do for the U.S. reader what Hollywood did for Lord Orris-transport him into an overseas dreamland whose main charm is its remoteness from everyday life. Just as the romantic "reporting" of H. L. Mencken makes old Baltimore a place of "happy days," so does Author Moore's accomplished imagination remove his rural Englishmen as far from mediocre reality as Falstaff and Prince Hal are from the men in the Kinsey...
...full enjoyment of the best literature, study is necessary. [This study] is a discipline. In all civilized societies it has been honored as one. Directors of our public schools show an increasing tendency to ignore this fact. . . . The sentimental idea that literature is first and last a dreamland of desire has led many school administrators, under the impression that they are being progressive, to permit the old-fashioned hard work of grammar, language, and letters to be displaced by an elaborate picnic of adolescent emotions...
Enter Something Wilson. In the New York Times Magazine, British Journalist C. (for Carolyn) A. Lejeune brilliantly caricatured Hollywood's version of the Great Dreamland...