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While these defects may as well be due to unwise dismemberment of a coherent novel, selecting being the tricky business that it is, there are other defects for which no such excuse can be offered. The language is seldom precise and sometimes implausible. Chace writes, for example, "Justin returned to his shaving and tried to change his thoughts by applying alcohol and powder to his skin." Whether or not Justin is a solipsist, the relationship between his facial activity and his mental processes is extremely tenuous. The point is that the eye for detail is not the selective eye achieving...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: The Advocate | 9/26/1956 | See Source »

...Vagabond King (Paramount) provides a multimillion-dollar answer to a question that nobody has been asking: Where are the snores of yesteryear? In 1901, the short, unhappy life of François Villon, the notorious balladist of 15th century France, was rewritten by Playwright Justin McCarthy as a long, claptrappy rapier romance that held the stage for decades and made E. H. Sothern the most famous scenery-chewer of his time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 24, 1956 | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

Lynch said that mechanic-driver Justin C. McCarthy was accompanied by six Radcliffe girls from the Midwest, "bag and baggage," as he left at 4 a.m. Friday morning. Councillor Edward Crane '35, however, insisted that one of the six was from Lesley College. A spot check last night indicated that it was unlikely that six 'Cliffedwellers drove home with McCarthy...

Author: By Ernest A. Ostro, | Title: Engine Drives Off Day Early | 12/17/1955 | See Source »

City Fire Chief Henry E. Kilfoyle last night offered free rides to "any student that wants one" in the engine which fire mechanic Justin C. McCarthy is driving to Kenosha, Wisconsin for repairs. During the three-day trek, the apparatus will pass through New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Chicago...

Author: By Ernest A. Ostro, | Title: City Offers Students from Midwest Free Journey Home in Fire Engine | 12/16/1955 | See Source »

Says Lawyer Justin Moore, the man who found Preacher Adams for Richmond: "Ted Adams is probably regarded by a vast majority of Southern Baptists of every political persuasion as the finest Baptist preacher in the world. But the fact remains that he could never be elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Oldtime Religion | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

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