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...woodsmen (Mike Fink, Davy Crockett), sanctify Johnny Appleseed. The U.S. gift for tall talk is flaunted in Sven, the Hundred Proof Irish man, and speeches by General Buncombe ("Sir, we want elbow room - the continent, the whole continent - and nothing but the continent"). The U.S. talent for epithet is flaunted in: "The man who would change the name of Arkansas is the original, iron-jawed, brass-mounted, copper-bellied corpse-maker from the wilds of the Ozarks." The U.S. love of violence runs riot in stories about hard-knuckled, sure-shooting, two-gunned desperadoes, tough pioneers, chain-gang Negroes...
Plus whatever honest interest Premier Godbout had in cheap public power, he was clearly bidding for reelection. He was well aware that his French-Canadian constituents were in a mood to applaud any blow at the trustards, Quebec's epithet for the English-Canadian capitalists who control much of the Province's industry...
...Small One." To Italian democrats, King Vittorio Emanuele is still a rankling symbol of the Mussolini regime. Once il piccolo (the small one) was a sentimental nickname for the king. Now it is a bitter epithet. His son, Umberto, has won the title lo stupido nazionale. Even such democratic political leaders as Benedetto Croce and Count Carlo Sforza were willing to join a new Government if the King were kicked out and a regency established for the "little prince." the seven-year-old Prince of Naples. But the King was kept...
...Articulate General Eisenhower does indeed talk with his shoulders. TIME's talk, as Father Coleman suggests, may occasionally reflect TIME's lifelong admiration of the Homeric epithet...
Jeannie (Tansa-English Films) entered the U.S. meekly by way of a Manhattan art theater, is still packing the place after nine weeks, drew the epithet "delightful" from leather-mouthed Walter Winchell, and has just been nationally released. With nothing more than their bare hands, a little intelligence, tenderness and characterization, the creators of Jeannie tackle a grey-haired comic cliché-The Innocent Abroad-and come up with the best light comedy of the year. Jeannie McLean, a sharp-chinned, homely-pretty Scottish country girl, 26 and single, decides before she buries herself in domestic service, to squander...