Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such questions carry their own answers, if, as is certainly the case with Author Plievier, the author's rhetoric is sufficiently apt and impassioned. Stalingrad is not much as fiction, but it has the impressiveness of a terrifying, twice-told lesson taught by an adamant professor of humanity...
...benefits that it would be hard to define?" The Economist concluded: "The old safe world in which the 'loose connection' flourished no longer exists, and unless the Commonwealth revises the standard of conduct and cooperation which it expects from its members it will become merely a sentimental fiction. There is no virtue in mere size-'the larger the assembly of sheep, the more it appeals to the wolves.' A sprawling collection of nations with no common obligations, with no coordinated line of action in world affairs, and at odds with each other makes up an international...
...Shoes (J. Arthur Rank; Eagle Lion) is a lingering, calf-eyed look at backstage ballet's little world of overworked egos and underdone glands. Its theme is one of fiction's most moth-eaten: one must suffer...
...story sets up problems for bouncy, pregnant Peggy (Jeanne Crain) and her glum G.I. husband (William Holden)-and answers their problems with advice from Socrates and Spinoza-Apartment for Peggy is a pleasant little movie flavored with idealism. Then it spills over into woman's magazine fiction and some heavy bathos about a retired philosophy professor (Edmund Gwenn...
...youthful General Gus Beale to see that his men do. Unlike most generals in fiction, Beale is not only a very likable man, he is also fit to be a general. A brilliant fighter pilot, a veteran of Bataan and the North African front, he is now being kept out of harm's way in Florida, his every move watched by the men in Washington who must decide whether or not to choose him as commander of the expected air assault on Japan...