Word: mss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beauty. No lover of MSS. is likely to dispute the fascination of the Lockwood Collection, or fail to thrill at seeing a poem's genesis in a forest of sharp erasures, half-illegible inserts, blots, missteps and idle doodles. But only five work sheets are reproduced in Poets at Work, and the comments in the four essays which make up this book do not suggest that the analysts are likely to get far in pinning down the poetic mystery...
...Lombards and the Saracens, and the Napoleonic French, and by earthquake as well. But some remained from the 11th Century; and a little from the 6th. Virtually all of the stone palimpsest was rendered forever illegible by the bombers. But the irreplaceable possessions of the library, its 1,200 MSS. and 40,000 records, were removed by the Hermann Göring Division. Monte Cassino's librarian and archivist, Don Mauro Inguanez, rescued the ashes of Shelley and the holographs of Keats's last miseries in Rome, smuggling them out among his personal papers in a German military...
...tone of the picture is set at the start by narrator Bob Benchley. "This, he says, "is the perfect example of how not to make a good picture." Perhaps it isn't art, but its much more worth-while than most of Hollywood's more serious efforts. mss...
...fraught with many incongruities in book, in setting, and in score. The play at times becomes a revue, with an irrelevant but pleasing dance sequence interlarded between several ballet numbers. But the customer who comes to be diverted will not object, for he will not have been disappointed mss...
...through. Nor is it Ford's either, for the most part. It is primarily the Hollywood tradition of giving the customer the largest amount of fireworks in the longest possible picture (two hours and fifteen minutes, to be exact) that has conspired to ruin an otherwise excellent war epic. mss...