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...tenderness, there was a hint of the violent in Stewart's innocence. His first reaction to ridicule as Mr. Smith is to hunt reporters down and punch them out--until Jean Arthur's hardbought worldly wisdom is put at his service. The innocent is not good with words, so fists must serve--as Stewart shows when he tries to taunt the glib C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) into fighting him in The Philadelphia Story. Even saintly George Bailey terrorizes his own children before rushing out to do violence to himself...
While that hardbought insight illuminates the current production at Manhattan's Circle in the Square Theater, the clash of wills between King Pentheus of Thebes and the god Dionysus is somewhat muffled, despite Michael Cacoyannis' incisive direction and his crisply idiomatic translation. John Noah Hertzler's Pentheus is less a king than a kinglet, a petty tyro tyrant, and Christopher Rich's Dionysus is no god but a godlet, a prancing posturer devoid of awe, might and mystery...
...collected in this book is the one Kim wrote his sweetheart just before the Nazis executed him in April 1945. Kim, then 21, said: "Promise me-this you owe to everything I have lived for-that never will the thought of me come between you and Life." The hardbought truths of Kim's goodbye are valid for all the world's bereaved next...
...massive head like that of a Roman emperor, would sometimes put one of his odd, sharp questions: "What do you think is the color of your thoughts?" He has had nothing to say about the new honors given him, or the reawakening admiration for his work. As for the hardbought value of civilization, in his neat hand he once wrote on that subject...
...Camp Swift, Tex., the traveling faculty of the Engineers' special school of mines was giving its 14th intensive course in mines, booby traps and how to fool them. The students: 200 officers of other combatant branches, who will pass on to their own troops the Army's hardbought education in enemy wiles...
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