Word: escapist
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...scenery's great when Betty Grable, John Payne and the Canadian Rockies get together. Add a dash of technicolor and flavor with Harry James' hot trumpet and you might have something in the way of escapist fare. But "Springtime in the Rockies" barely escapes with its life after being mistreated by such cinema bogeys as lack of plot and the inability of Grable or Payne to do much more than look very much like Mr. and Miss Atlantic City...
Unity at Last. There was one man on whom the Fighting French, the British and the U.S. could agree. General Henri Honore Giraud, the old escapist, had been picked for this role before the U.S. forces landed, but when he reached North Africa Darlan was there ahead of him and he had voluntarily yielded to Darlan. Now it was a question whether those North African leaders who had remained loyal to Darlan and Vichy would accept Giraud as their chief...
...Seventh Cross, by Anna Seghers ($2.50), was the exciting story of escape from a German concentration camp and of the nature of those from whom the escapist seeks help...
More concerned with letters than with immediate life was William Gaunt with The Pre-Raphaelite Tragedy ($3), a witty history of the famous group of British Victorian painters. Virginia Woolf also, in her posthumous Death of the Moth ($3), showed her most delicate skill as a literary escapist. Harry Levin's James Joyce ($1.50), blind though it was to Joyce's grandest and plainest virtues as an artist, furnished plain readers with useful X-rays of much that was most abstruse in Joyce's genius...
...accepted the Darlan solution. In the minds of many non-Vichy Frenchmen, this had done his reputation much harm; certainly it had made cooperation between him and De Gaulle impossible until the obstacle of Darlan was removed. The Fighting French had hoped to join forces with the popular escapist Giraud, a hope that had been frustrated before they had been able even to establish contact with...