Word: heroisms
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When you have read the book you will see what Author Faulkner thinks of the inviolability of sanctuary. The intended hero is the decent, ineffectual lawyer. But all heroism is swamped by the massed villainy that weighs down these pages. Outspoken to an almost medical degree, Sanctuary should be let alone by the censors because no one but a pathological reader will be sadistically aroused...
Seas Beneath (Fox). Even spectators not qualified to pass on the accuracy of detail of the naval warfare shown here will have a strong suspicion that Director John Ford has romanticized. All the action is highly theatrical: a jumble of spywork, gunfire, carousal, submarine heroism, with some brilliant photography of sea-scenes. The photography is all that recommends it, for the dialog is inept and the story of the Mystery Ship sent out as decoy for a German submarine and the beautiful German spy who loves a U. S. officer but sees him kill her brother in the course...
...related by any participator. With this in mind, then, it is not hard to understand the annoyance of anybody who experienced the War from the German side, at seeing a representation of a perhaps distortedly realistic and gruesome version of the war, stripped of any spark of heroism or glamor, pass as the version typical to all German soldiers. With the film they felt Remarque ceased to be the author of the plot and instead it was a rather caricatured Germany that held the responsibility. With that feeling guiding their thoughts, it is easily conceivable that the brutalities, the panics...
...Considerably fewer can explain how and why the D. F. C. is awarded. Writing in Outlook & Independent this week Carl B. Allen, smart aviation editor of the New York World, submits: "... That the D. F. C. has strayed from its original conception as [an] acknowledgment of 'heroism or extraordinary achievement ... in an aerial flight' and degenerated somewhat into the plaything of politicians and a pawn in the hands of the Ballyhoo Boys...
...love of Italy, my worship of memories, my aspirations toward heroism, my presentiment of my country's future ? they are all revealed here in every line, in every note of color. Here, too, are my books, not kept to collect dust, but as living entities, and perhaps no solitary student has ever had so many. As death will give my body to my beloved Italy, so let me be permitted to preserve the best of my life in this offering to Italy...