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...realism comes chiefly from the absence of the typical villain-hero relationship that marks the average movie plot. Henry Fonda has the leading part but he only rebels against the mob; he cannot stop the lynching. Fonda takes the position of a muse that realizes, even raises his voice against the injustice, yet when the end comes, he has really been only a bystander. And the villains too are not singly responsible but are rather cowards whose weaknesses combined make a criminal potent enough to kill three...
...Baseball Muse was so pleased with the perfect records of the Lowell and Adams teams that she couldn't bear to let either squad lose the crucial game yesterday. So she came up with this solution: Lowell 4, Adams...
...Robert Graves is one literary campaigner against God who refuses to find his compensation in Communism, Existentialism, or any other materialistic system. In eccentric loneliness, Graves worships his own spectacular deity-a lady known as the White Goddess, whom he declares to be the true Godhead and only true muse of poets, and to whose abandonment by erring man he attributes most of the mess in the world today...
...great shakes either as a novel or a sociological essay. But it manages to stand up-and to stand out-as another rich expression of Robert Graves's fantastical mind. To laugh in the face of his Goddess is only natural; but without this pure yet beastly muse Graves would probably not be what he emphatically is-one of the finest poets of the Late Christian Epoch...
...Innocence. In 1928, Evelyn (pronounced Evil in) Arthur St. John Waugh (rhymes with raw) leaped, like a literary commando, out of nowhere and, establishing a beachhead in that dismal waste land which Poet T. S. Eliot had charted six years before, began to commit merry mayhem on the comic muse...