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...Crosby pops in from time to time as one Allen A. Dale, who reforms a roomful of rowdy orphans with a song called Don't Be a Do-Badder. The rest of the film runs to self-parody, augmented by boyish enthusiasm for booze, broads, violence and bad grammar. Though 7 Hoods offers negligible entertainment value, it does provide innocuous occupational therapy for the western world's best-paid gang of rebels without a cause...
...apparently independent of the man who created it. All of the conscious or subconscious control that Beethoven was capable of seems to have gone into the music-leaving none for the day-by-day business of living. The human Beethoven could not add, could not learn the rules of grammar, and could not master his emotions. For a time, his biographers were able to ignore these facts. But in 1866 the first volume of Alexander Wheelock Thayer's great Life appeared, and Beethoven biography has not been the same since...
...studies in dentistry keep him busy 60 hours a week. He competed only twice all last season, and his haphazard practice sessions this year are limited to two nights a week. "It's always in the dark," says Long. "I used to climb the playground fence at the grammar school down the block, but the night watchman didn't like that much. So now I use a piece of sidewalk in the park...
Uris piles up countless petty errors of fact, even of grammar ("It's a good thing English has nothing to do with writing" is another Uris pronouncement). The airlift and the gutty Berliners deserve a better chronicler...
...Diem government ruled Hoaimy lightly. There was a small garrison of civil-defense troops and a grammar school. But Hoaimy had no clinic, no high school, no agricultural assistance, no real return for taxes, and no official attention that was more than passing. Then last November, after Diem's overthrow, the Communist Viet Cong arrived. They drove off the garrison, and when the new government made a feeble effort to recapture Hoaimy, the Viet Cong ambushed and whipped an army battalion...