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Plot for a Graveyard. Some smart Broadway money was betting that Music Man would fall flat on its corn husks when it opened at the Majestic Theater. By Broadway standards, it is simpleminded and unsophisticated. It is also warmhearted, brilliantly performed and a lot of fun. The Music Man is Professor Harold Hill, a glib-tongued, fast-footed, woman-chasing rascal of a traveling salesman from Gary, Ind., who bursts into staid River City, charms a frozen-faced populace into digging into their cookie jars and mattresses to buy instruments and uniforms for a boys' marching band that will...
...commander, General Charles de Gaulle refused a request from the widow of Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, wavering head of the fascist puppet Vichy government during World War II, asking that her husband's remains, now on the lonely Ile d'Yeu, be transferred to a graveyard at Verdun, site of his great 1916 defensive victory over the Germans...
This book aspires to "an epic calm . . . the calm of the graveyard." The graveyard is the Warsaw ghetto. The epic is the story of the last hopeless resistance of 500,000 Jews to their Nazi exterminators. Nearly two decades after the event, the reader feels not only horror but a sense of wonder at having lived through a time that gave birth to such crimes...
...obligation to run because a young, politically promising cousin had been killed in the war. His personal diffidence won him respect in the House; his shrewd advice on business affairs won him esteem in the City. At the Ministry of Agriculture he managed to achieve a success in that "graveyard of future Prime Ministers...
...more, the crew is in Lancaster's corner. When Gable pours on the drill, they fall to without a grumble, but when he ducks a Japanese submarine, they mutter that he is "running scared." And when Gable, in defiance of orders, heads for Bungo Strait, "the graveyard'' where at least four U.S. subs lie buried, a deputation waits on the exec and asks him to take over the boat. After a while, he does. And yet, is Gable really wrong? Is Lancaster really right? Fortunately, the moviegoer gets something more interesting to think about from time...