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...last) act plunks a few blank cartridges into Madison Avenue, the most oversimplified U.S. symbol of evil since George F. Babbitt. To compound the sense of the archaic, the hero tumbles onstage with a planeload of European fellow immigrants to raise an Ellis-Islandish plea of ''melt us" before audiences that would rather be caught naked than stewing in the common pot of conformism...
...fact the whole film-is charged with a simple, sincere feeling that has seldom before been noticeable in Bergman's movies. Bergman's new capacity to touch the heart is not a large capacity, not a teeming oceanic love of all mankind. But it is enough to melt the ice in his irony and to lend his humor a kindly glow. It also pumps some warm blood into his characters, and the warmth has relaxed and inspired his actors: seldom has one film offered four performances of comparable quality...
Bernstein keeps orchestra, soloists and the Westminster Choir working in effort less agreement, and Soprano Farrell is in the kind of form that can melt a listener...
...unwonted newtish wetness pervades the simmering gutters, and as if for efts lies puddling on the pavements. The icicles, sad eyelids of the white-haired residences, weep down the ivy cheeks and in despair cascade in shattering barrages on the innocents below. Minutious capillary streets transmit a filthy umbrous melt to unreceptive veins, unopened sewers, and all along the byways mounds of pablumgrey constrict the traveler from...
...employees. Post office employees earn 3.5% less than industrial workers (a mailman averages $30 weekly), but Postmaster General Reginald Bevins flatly refused an increase, offered only to study the subject. To make up for the slowdown, he ordered postal employees to work overtime, but it was like trying to melt a glacier. At Mount Pleasant. London's main sorting office, the backlog rose to 5,000,000 letters. Railway stations were swamped: in one shed alone at Euston. 100,000 mailbags waited four days to be picked up. The post office announced that it could not handle parcel post...