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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relatively few, being publicly identified with a popular party, and whether revolutionary art, such as his, was not at bottom even resented by the revolutionary masses." Life & Logic. " 'There is just such a want of accord between the two revolutionary forces,' he conceded. 'But life isn't a very logical business, is it? As for me, I have to act as I feel, both as an artist and as a man.' "There was a pause; he suddenly...
...them.' "As I was leaving I told him how, on the previous day when I [visited] the Salon d'Automne, I saw two lorry-loads of gendarmes arrive to effect the changing of the guard in the Picasso room. He laughed: 'Just like Buckingham Palace, isn't it?' he said delightedly...
...Gregory Peck). After trying to help settle a labor dispute involving Montague Barrymore and Capulet Crisp, she withdraws to watch her lover endure a loveless marriage (Jessica Tandy). The movie, as usual, provides a happier ending than the book allowed. In spite of dead stretches and hammy streaks, it isn't a bad story; but it is hardly worth two hours' expensively handsome, meticulous telling...
...Anatomy of Courage, recently published in London, is composed largely of a series of sketches from life, mostly in World War I. ¶ A malingering old colonel once came to Moran pleading dysentery ("I'm afraid I'll have to go sick. It's a nuisance, isn't it?"). Wrote the doctor in his diary: "He looked old and troubled. For a quarter of a century he had been a soldier preparing no doubt for the real thing. It had come and this was the end." ¶A young subaltern with "dark eyes under long lashes...
...Traditions of 300 years and more were swept away . . ." Vag put down the Monday issue of the CRIMSON disconsolately. "This mid-winter graduation business just tops it off," he mused. "And it isn't only the war, either. Harvard is losing all its legends, all its color...