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...picture is that of a nameless, captive Russian soldier, surrounded by Nazis as he is being questioned by Herr Goebbels. Several TIME readers wrote to say that they found the picture one of the most moving...
...book of 1941 told. Novelist Koestler came closest to doing it. His Darkness at Noon is laid in a Communist prison. In one scene an imprisoned Communist taps through his cell wall to ask why his neighbor, a Tsarist officer, has first refused, then sent him cigarets. The nameless, faceless, voiceless Tsarist, the type of the repudiated man, taps back his reason to the totalitarian who once thought he was the hope of the world: "Decency-something your kind will never understand...
...Comment by a nameless observer on the regal bearing of RKO Actor-Producer-Writer-Director Orson Welles (Citizen Kane): "There, but for the grace of God goes...
...chant: "Digging and delving, hedging and ditching, we pass. . . . Summer and winter, autumn and spring return. . . . All passes but we, all changes . . . but we remain forever the same. . . ." They remind you of Evelyn Waugh; yet in Mrs. Woolf's many-planed perspective they are also in truth the nameless human swarm...
This time Bob Hope wrestles with the role of a young stockbroker who wagers $10,000 that he can tell the truth for 24 hours. He finds it tough going. Although Scripters Don Hartman and Ken Englund (and other nameless gagmen) have tried hard to refurbish the old farce by throwing out the 1916 gags and substituting their own, the change is scarcely noticeable...