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...Defense. Farrell enthusiasts, on the contrary, will stoutly insist that out of Farrell's graceless prose emerges a true and important period picture. The subject: Manhattan of the flamboyant '20s-which the late Scott Fitzgerald saw from the peak of success, and which Chicago-born James T. Farrell sees from the bottom of the barrel...
...Possessions of Man. Centuries ago, guided by the light of the stars and "the feel of the waves on the boat," the forefathers of the Bikinians had pushed their graceful canoes up the length of the Marshall Islands. Now graceless LSTs bore them to Rongerik, an atoll 140 miles to southeast...
Cairo purveyed a graceless joke: when Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Ismet Inönü met after Teheran, they dined on warmed-up Turkey. President Inönü and his agile Foreign Minister, Numan Menemencioglu, deserved a better commentary-for, to all intents, Turkey had joined the Allies. She might at any moment be faced with war, either by her own declaration or by German attack...
This time Father Claude Rains is a sort of early-bird Enoch Arden, vagabonding back to mother and the girls after 20 years of French leave just as mother is fixing to marry again. This time John Garfield is an incredibly graceless, beachcombing wise guy, a rhinestone in the rough with some strange romantic glitter for Priscilla. This time mother and the girls all get what is best for them, and nobody suffers more than a bad case of sniffles. Next time, the four daughters will return in something called Four Wives...
Most readers will find The Minstrel Boy the more balanced, more understanding account. As Author Strong points out: if Moore sought preferment wherever he could get it, consorted with the lords and ladies, whose power his poetry was attacking, that was no more than the gracefully graceless way of the times he lived in. If he ran from the battles he fomented, that was because he was a poet, not a man of action. And if his poetry "glows at no great heat," seems largely facile and sentimental now, it had a quality, incommunicable to present ears, which made...