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...failure of this funerary passion, the intrusion of an Englishman named Dennis, who works in a neighboring cat & dog cemetery, the Happier Hunting Ground, and Miss Thanatogenos' love-death, are the burden of The Loved...
...commission of professors-headed by a Frenchman, an Englishman, an American, and a Russian-had finally agreed on a new Outline of History suitable for young German minds. They had carefully ironed out Nazi distortions-and had added some new twists of their own. Soviet Major Vassily Bagrov wanted to say a good deal about "The Shady Aspects of Celibacy" when discussing the Renaissance church. The other powers said no; but they agreed to let him have a chapter on "The Class Struggle on the Eve of the Reformation...
...Russian major also hoped to climax a section on 17 of the world's greatest political thinkers with a contrast between "Socialist Structure and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat" and "The Unbalanced Structure of Capitalism." Protested the Englishman: "Then I think it's hardly worth putting Jefferson in at all ... in this one-sided view of history." The Russian's feelings were hurt; 83% of the men to be studied, he said, "represent theories thoroughly unacceptable to the Soviet Union." But he finally backed down and settled for a big section on "Countries with a New Democracy...
...Russian officer turns to leave the American, German, Englishman, and French woman he has met on the Berlin express, he lets fall to the pavement the card bearing the American's address. An insidious fear begins to creep up on the moviegoer; surely this allegorical film of our times is going to justify all the advance publicity given it by the Hearst press. But "Berlin Express" is an American film and all must still be for the best; the Russian alights from the jeep, picks up the card, smiles for the first time during the picture, and waves goodbye...
...Geoffrey Household is an Englishman with a quiet gift for telling tales. He made a success in 1939 with a story about a big game hunter's attempt to stalk Hitler with telescopic sights. After that book, Rogue Male,* he went to the Near East as an intelligence officer, seeing action in Greece and intrigue in Syria and Palestine...