Word: lovely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born of a long diet of salad and love . . . The fact that [my parents] had not married before a mayor or priest did not bother them...
...Ruth's old-style direction, in the manner of a fast silent comedy, and Ruth Roman's homegirl charm as the love interest, help Berle make Always Leave Them Laughing a warm, unpretentiously funny comedy...
...selecting his title, Thomas Merton has pointed out the inadequacy of the poems in this latest collection. The quote on the frontispiece from Leon Bloy reads "When those who love God try to talk about him, their words are blind lions looking for springs in the desert." Merton's lines are fervent and usually very expressive but, for the most part, fall short in the description of the Divine; the title, "Tears of the Blind Lions," suggests that the poet is lamenting his own failure to express his love for God in verse...
...Devil in the Flesh" is a story about a high school boy and a war bride in France in 1918 who do not find the words of the contemporary ditty to be the case at all. The young woman (Michelene Presle), married to a soldier she does not love, becomes deeply and passionately involved with an adolescent (Gerard Phillipe), and around their clandestine romance is spun the action of the finest French film this reviewer has seen...
This is not a book which lends itself to criticism, for it is made from well-written, timely, lively copy. It is, of course, limited by its subject matter--it only covers war, politics, religion, medicine, death, birth, love, hate, courage, coward-ice, comedy, and tragedy...