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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Open City. Graphic, Italian-made film of Rome under Nazi rule...
...appreciated its spiritual content. It was begun shortly after the Nazis scurried out of Rome, photographed with a minimum of studio equipment on five-year-old film bought at fancy prices in the black market. The cast was half amateur, half professional. Despite these difficulties, Open City is a graphic, bitter, harrowing document and a denial of 21 years of Mussolini...
...himself, he surmised, is the "only phonetician, economist and man of letters who realizes how much money there is in a British alphabet with which every sound in our speech can be written with one graphic symbol." Shaw appealed to the British Government "as a labor government" to do something about...
...exhilarating sense of the grandeur (as well as the misery) of battle. There are striking impressions and biographical sketches of Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, Admiral Raymond Ames Spruance, and quick, revealing glimpses of dozens of other officers and men. And there are unforgettable, somewhat baffled, but graphic reports of the nature of the Japanese enemy, especially his proneness to suicide...
...Board threw all but two score of its war time restrictions to the winds, giddily told startled U.S. manufacturers to make all the automobiles they wished (see BUSINESS). The same went for washing machines, ironers, pots & pans, electric razors, pottery, Kleenex, toys, radios, suits, dresses, storage batteries and photo graphic film...