Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of what it wanted-99-year rights to bases at half a dozen major and a dozen minor sites. The main Air Forces installation will be at Clark Field, 60 miles north of Manila, with...
...dead and half drowned in whiskey in a wrecked automobile. There are moments of suspense, that are given a refreshing new dimension by the point of view, but they fail to save the picture from a dreariness that is enhanced by indifferent acting by everyone but Montgomery and one minor character...
...type President Lowell envisaged, but more in a sort of glorified dormitory. The Houses are dormitories in so far as they furnish shelter and food; they are glorified in so far as they do so resplendently. And they are not Houses in so far as they fail, with minor exceptions, to supply any form of extra-curricular intellectual activity...
Robert Cummings and Michele Morgan are a wooden and rather uninteresting pair of principals, and as a minor villain Peter Lorre plays another in a long line of roles which, in retrospect, seem all about the same. As chief heavy, a newcomer named Steve Cochran does little but scowl menacingly, in a picture wherein action moves at the pace of a snail and suspense is kept down to a minimum...
...their leaders are both confused, the reactionary politicians in Congress too strong, the President himself is being advised by men with no conception of how to run a democratic foreign policy. What can anyone do? They can fight on this issue not with the hope of winning any but minor concessions, but with the hope of clearing up the confusion, of driving home to the people and the Administration and Congress, the point that democracy's enemies cannot defend democracy. Perhaps some time before it is too late--1948 perhaps--the tide can be turned. Allen H. Barton...