Word: minds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...humor. The dialogue is bright and witty, the comic relief sophisticated and highly effective. Throughout the tenseness of the investigation, one of the policemen persists in talking to the embassy in lumbering French, although they always reply in perfect English. And the come logic of a child's mind is played for its full charm. Bobby Henrey as Felipe gives the top performance of a well-acted movie. There is none of the sentimental cuteness about him that makes some child stars so objectionable; he acts like an authentic small boy. All through the film, there are glimpses...
Your article on Mayor James M. Curley of Boston [TIME, Oct. 24] was a masterpiece of subtle sarcasm. However, I fear that if you had any idea in mind of influencing the electorate of the city of Boston, your efforts were futile...
...Boston, you are either fanatically devoted to Curley, or violently opposed to him. There is no middle ground. And, while respecting your right to comment, may I frankly suggest that you mind your own business...
...this is as it should be, perhaps, in an institution devoted to the development of the mind. But we would contend that there is no harm in extending the advantages of a Harvard education to otherwise qualified men who also play football...
...poems suffer from the same lack of direction. In verse, of course, a poet can succeed by scratching just one image into your mind. But Signature's poets, possibly excepting Miss Benet, don't even do that. They simply fail to arouse, or to "make the reader care...