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Also reactivated, with a difference: Sinclair Lewis, who made his first big noise lambasting all the herd-minded Americans who join lodges and wear funny hats at male get-togethers. A Yale class reunion brought Lewis running, obediently decked in the herd's badges and wearing the standard reunion headpiece...
...Herd-Loneliness. At 53, stocky Ben Hecht could look down the rungs of a long, golden ladder. He had left Racine, Wis. in his teens with the idea of becoming a violinist. He became a boy-wonder newspaperman (Chicago Daily News) instead. In 1921 he wrote an involved but honest novel, Erik Dorn, but soon found his real bent in writing plays (like The Front Page, co-authored with Charles MacArthur) and dashing off lush Hollywood scripts for $5,000 a week. "I was always able to make large sums of money without giving money any thought," Hecht says...
...lusts and all our other good and bad hungers, is this obsession we have, to be Some One. . . . We clamor to acquire a meaning, to participate, however humbly, in the world of ideas and events; to hold opinions that will make us significant. . . to lift ourselves out of a herd-loneliness that eternally engulfs...
...Vera Cruz labor up the mountains, they have something deep and puzzling to talk about. Today a veterinarian decided that one of Juan Fernandez' five steers was infected. Tomorrow soldiers will come, shoot it, bury it deep. Then they will shoot all the healthy cattle in the village herd and send that meat to market. The small owners will all be paid market prices. But what of the rule that no new cattle can graze on village land for two months? Where will the new foundation stock come from? When will the Government make good its promise to replace...
...high level of interest without sporadic injections of high-octane melodrama. "The Overlanders" reaches the correct balance between fact and fiction, resulting in a refreshing absence of gun play or fiendish attacks by woolly-headed natives. By careful pruning, the producers have portrayed the grim struggle to save a herd from the Japanese with all its harsh, wearing aspects. A long push to a dried-up water hole comes over as a very real tragedy and the countless flies sticking to the riders' backs are the kind that bite, not just shavings from a Hershey bar pasted on the shirt...