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Breeder reactors, opening up a virtually limitless supply of power, will dispel a cloud that hangs over the future of mankind-the prospect that within a few centuries the earth's supply of coal and petroleum will be exhausted. Since modern civilization could not survive without economical sources of power, historians of the future may record that the train of atomic development beginning on Dec. 2. 1942 preserved the civilization that it sometimes seemed to threaten...
...points. Again and again he shows the same characters playing the same emotional parts: the domineering old woman, the haplessly childish daughter, the faintly struggling son-in-law. Each family anecdote would make a good (if somewhat bloated) New Yorker sketch. But, because only members of a family have limitless interest in family idiosyncrasies, the sum of Before My Time is interminably less than its parts. With skill at re-creating the rich past, Tucci has hand-tooled a glittering vintage automobile. It is a perfect replica, with genuine brass driving lamps and a burled walnut dashboard. All it lacks...
Critics, says Walter Jackson Bate, are most fond of authors with complex styles. By this standard Horace is the perfect subject, since an inflected language gave him almost total liberty with word placement, and an ingrown poetic tradition furnished him with limitless chances for allusion. Commager nimbly unravels the syntax and shows how it functions artistically, indeed visually, throughout the odes. He is extremely alert to Horace's sophisticated manipulstion of such literary conventions as the pastoral and the spring song. Horace, as Commager proves, used these stock patterns as the basis for subtle and ambivalent statements about love...
...point is the prison scene. The day of D.W. Griffith has passed, and sheer numbers on the screen no longer amaze anyone. Kurosawa, however, manages to restore our old sense of wonder by taking his shots from impressive angles and by composing each sequence powerfully. We watch a limitless mob suddenly spring to life in their enormous dungeon; at the peak of their fury only the tips of their improvised clubs are visible, flailing fiercely up and down in the prison gloom. Then the camera shifts to the hill outside. From a point at the base of the slope...
...study, Hitler's successes were the result of the Western Powers' failure to deal with German grievances realistically and consistently, rather than the consequence of an aggressive and war-bent policy of Hitler's. Hitler took advantage of the West's vacillation and indecision; he did not seek limitless Lebensraum or resolve upon a war for war's sake. "The war of 1939," says Taylor, "far from being premeditated, was a mistake, the result on both sides of diplomatic blunders...