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Time & Changes. In Hiroshima, Author Hersey turned in one of the best pieces of factual reporting in many a day and in his earlier novel, A Bell for Adano, he achieved a considerable success in the field of fictional treatment of fact in which The Wall is a failure. Comparison of the three gives some measure of his gifts and shortcomings. A Bell for Adano's strength was its immediate relevance to a situation faced by the Allied Military Government in Italy. Time and changes in the situation have worn much of the book's luster away. Author...
Three Came Home (20th Century-Fox). A month after Pearl Harbor, U.S.-born Author Agnes Newton Keith, wife of a British colonial official, became a prisoner of the Japanese in North Borneo. Out of her three-year ordeal, she wrote a bestselling factual account of how she and her two-year-old son fared in tropical prison camps until liberation reunited them with the husband whom the Japanese had imprisoned near by. As a movie, done with reasonable fidelity to the book, it is often as harrowing, moving-and sometimes as monotonous-as what the war did to the Keiths...
From this factual melange Sari Scott has written a play, her first. Any resemblance between what she has intended and the present production is unfortunate. The script is full of cliches of the "I hain't never loved no other woman," type. Donald Curtis, playing opposite Carol Stone, seems to be uncertain as to the interpretation of his role and consequently divides his time between two different ones. With the exception of a fine "mad" scene climaxed by an car-shattering scream, Miss Stone also has trouble giving credibility to her part. This is especially apparent because she has chosen...
...Rather than collecting in one's mind a wide scattering of factual information," Conant said, "however helpful such information may be in a quiz program." General Education should give a student, through intensive study of certain phases of a subject, "that same sort of appreciation and understanding that comes to those who studied some branch of knowledge with profit for many years." This, he said, rather than providing a survey of a wide field of knowledge, is the true aim of General Education...
...Beyond the boundaries of one's living working knowledge," Conant insisted, "factual information is trivial and ephemeral, (although) it may be useful as a guide to communication with contemporaries on s superficial basis...