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...newly rich black-marketeers fling lavish parties in speakeasy restaurants for their geisha girls. Pomaded dandies and taxi-dancers foxtrot in crowded dance-halls to the melancholy strains of ikoku no oka, "the hills of a strange land"-a hit-parade lament about Japan's 400,000 strong P.W.s still held in Soviet Siberia...
Hollywood keeps so busy wooing its "mass" audience that it traditionally scoffs at catering to "class" taste. Last week, taking stock of the moviemakers' problems, FORTUNE added its voice to an old lament by the critics: the industry is passing up a good bet by producing little to interest the 40 million Americans (mostly over 30) who only occasionally go to the movies. Pointing to the box-office success of Henry V and Hamlet, FORTUNE said: "The audience that made these pictures successful is the market that the industry generally ignores . . . Many good pictures made in Hollywood have shown...
...Knife (by Clifford Odets; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman) is Odets' first play in seven years, and probably his poorest ever. A kind of savagely spluttering memoir of Hollywood, where Odets has spent most of those seven years, it is a lament for crushed ideals and identities, a screeching indictment of vicious methods and heartless men. Its anger is real; everything else about it is contrived...
...traditional four-measure bounds of the popular ballad. He can write gaily, in complicated rhythms (as in Anything Goes). He can match a pointedly off-color lyric with an insinuating tune (as in My Heart Belongs to Daddy). But the true Porter hallmark is cut in the bittersweet lament of What Is This Thing Called Love? and in the sultry, Latin fervor of Begin the Beguine, I've Got You Under My Skin, In the Still of the Night and Get Out of Town...
...Players today are not trained or prepared physically to go an entire game . . . and [thus] never reach the peak of physical condition. They're good passers, better catchers, and good kickers, but they lack stamina." Then he allowed himself a Senecan lament on mid-Century males in general: "It is my opinion that the youth of today, on or off the gridiron, is not trained for total responsibility as the youth of my earlier years...