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...unfortunate blight," Thackeray began writing art criticism. His nom de plume, Michael Angelo Titmarsh, became a feared and hated name among Britain's painters. Even when he had become a novelist and was rolling in royalties ("?10,000 - Cock-adoodleodoodle"), he was still "bitten with my old mania...
...outstanding poets (14th-19th Centuries), only two were "demonstrably" insane. The two: Cowper, who most of his life was subject to fits of melancholia and suicidal mania; and Swift, whose mind gave way in the last three years of his life...
...Czech foreign policy is Germany. I can't expect anybody in America to realize the intense batred these people have for the Germans. It's a mania. The three million Germans who were in CRS before the war and during the occupation were moved bodily back to Germany. Before the war the Germans here enjoyed national privileges. They had their own schools and churches and spoke their own language, (Kafta was one of them, but also a Jew.) The hatred is so great that German signs at international railroad cars have been painted over, German (which all the Czechs, speak...
...roof over their heads. It is unbearable, and unwise as well, to cherish memory of the bestial atrocities which have been perpetrated by Moslem and Sikh and Hindu alike. It is beyond human competence to conceive, far less to endure the thought of, the massiveness of the mania of rage, the munificence of the anguish, the fecundity of hate breeding hate, perhaps for generations to come...
...drunken rage, kills the 'Jew boy." Thus far, the story is nothing more than another Philo Vance tale, but original elements begin to appear when Robert Young, like any enterprising detective, looks for a motive. After a few false starts the sleuth realizes that Montgomery--Robert Ryan--harbors a mania against the people who stayed home during the war, especially Jews. While the remainder of the plot is not especially original in itself, the story benefits from excellent acting and a couple of well-done, anti-prejudicial speeches by Robert the First. These things make the picture novel and worth...