Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...review of Madame Bovary, TIME has a good word for the stars, producer and director. But the guy who, along with Gustave Flaubert, gave all these people, including TIME'S astute reviewer, something to shine at-Screenwriter Robert Ardrey, was referred to only as "the Hollywood version...
Willie made out all right. In The Saracen's Head, London Daily Express Cartoonist Osbert Lancaster thrusts greatness upon his unwilling hero in a bland satire that good-naturedly kids the iron pants off the whole profession of medieval arms. Written as a juvenile, it is the kind of literary fare that parents will gobble up if they can get it away from the kids. The Saracen's Head can be read in an hour, but in that brief time Willie runs his shaky lance through El Babooni, the infidel champ, is knighted by King Richard I himself...
...British lieutenant colonel who had escaped from the Japanese and was hiding in a Malayan mangrove swamp, wrote a letter to the Japanese occupation governor. Would His Excellency be so good as to mail to London the Englishman's diaries, which had been taken from him by his former Jap captors...
...admired the rank & file fighters although, in a sense, he was their prisoner. No guerrilla band could make a move, nor its leaders a decision, without an O.K. from party headquarters. It took months for Chapman to get a suggestion to the party bigwigs and their reply; a good deal of the time was spent in enforced and irritating idleness. He was always admired but always a little suspect, and could not move from band to band without permission. He quickly discovered that the real power in each group lay not with the military leader but with the political commissar...
...answers, closes merely by posing its problems honestly. If Author North had as much skill in creating a full gallery of credible characters as he has in drawing Carlos and his problems against the convincing background, he might have written a great novel. It is still a pretty good first...