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...returns to his home town for a week or so to help the old folks get the house repaired. Novelist Brooks uses this slender and unpromising pretext to merge past and present in a way that would make that old master of the flashback, John Marquand, nod with approval. Tom's ancestors had helped to found the town of East Bank, had fought against the British to hold it. Now, shorn of both money and influence, the family has one great fear: change. They don't like to see people with foreign names getting rich and powerful. They...
...trend was reversed. More and more the emphasis . . . was placed on the contemporary scene . . . Since the second world war, it has become the fashion in survey courses to begin at about 1500 A.D. if the institution is conservative, and 1918 if it is not, with a quick flashback to 1917 in order to include the Bolshevik revolution ... If this trend is carried to its logical conclusion we shall indeed not have history in the curriculum, but only social studies which, with luck, will be contemporary civilization, and at worst, predictions of things to come based on statistics of things happening...
...cart, piles in the canvases and hits up the New England towns for people who will pay $3 to $5 to have the blank spots filled in with their "likenesses." Rainbow on the Road covers one season's adventures on Jude's circuit as told in flashback by a 14-year-old boy who goes with...
Since this movie has been made so often, it is curious that Hollywood cannot at least make it well. The long pearl-fishing flashback puts a potbelly on the middle of the film that never wears off. Actor Granger, admirably suited to British drawing-room movies, is badly miscast. And the derring-duo, Taylor and Actress Blyth, seem, in their big storm scene, while all the screen rocks wildly, as beautiful, as smilingly unperturbed and as lifeless as a manikin couple in a sporting-goods-store window...
...wrecks of two marriages. The first, to Susan, collapses because their love is not mature enough to bridge two islands of pride. The second, to Alice, founders because they are drawn together only by loneliness, with longings too disparate for any bridge. Telling the story with an artful flashback, the novel flows smoothly to a full-circle ending, with Henry's son at Harvard and Henry's re-union with Susan in the exact setting of their first meeting...