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Olson brings out the design and freshens up the colors of this faded legend by putting it under the spotlight of today; turns it into a surrealistic cyclorama of human fate. In the foreground the seven deadly sins of Sloth, Gluttony, Envy, Lust, Avarice, Pride, Anger move like insatiable' ghouls through the golden haze of eternity. The background is left for the individual cyclorama-goer to fill...
Tuberculous Voltaire lived wizened and fire-eyed for 84 years. "In individuals in whom the tubercle bacillus grows meagerly . . ." observed Dr. Lawrence F. Flick, "[it] may make life more pleasant and make the individual more profitable to society than he otherwise would be." The passionate life-lust of John Keats's odes and sonnets is ironically accounted for in his autopsy: "The lungs were entirely gone; the doctors could not understand how he had lived the last two months." Professors often shake sad heads over their belief that had Keats (who died at 25) lived an average lifetime...
...that they are bricks, girders, and tie bars. I have not objected to the use of theories but only to their use in ways that produce what are called higher truths. I have not objected to simplifications but only to the use of simplifications in order to satisfy the lust for oneness by denying facts, experience and common sense. My objections rest on the observation that such ways of thinking produce confusion wherever they are applied and on the be lief that criticism has no privilege of confusing us." DeVoto was even more credible when he added: "Human patience...
...Allied Supreme War Council somewhere in France. Ex-First Lord Duff Cooper recalled the historical past of the German people "under the perjured, perverted Frederick, miscalled 'The Great'; under the mountebank, bulky Bismarck with his treble voice, his shifty diplomacy, his forged telegrams and his lust for conquest; under the vain cripple, Hohenzollern, who was, himself, the slave of the half-crazy Ludendorff, who so loathed Christianity that he worshipped Thor and Odin." After getting his breath, Orator Duff Cooper continued fortissimo: "But never did the face of Germany assume so villainous or vile an aspect as under...
...House of the Seven Gables (Universal) will enable people who have sometimes wondered what Nathaniel Hawthorne's 381-page New England novel is about to find out in some 87 minutes. It is about the property lust and slow decline of the Pyncheon tribe. Hawthorne addicts will not be too much upset since with a little more taste in casting and staging, this might have been a first-rate film. George Sanders is greedy Brother Jaffrey Pyncheon. Vincent Price is his long-suffering brother. Clifford. As prim, loyal, repressed Cousin Hepzibah, Margaret Lindsay does a Bette Davis, and does...