Word: namelessness
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...thriller fulfills Adolf Hitler's recipe for Grade-A propaganda: it must be so exaggeratedly simple that the masses will get the point at once. Gone With the Wind is an exaggeratedly simple account of the brutality of American imperialism. A pack of Yankee cutthroats on a nameless West Indian island frame, cuckold and dishonor a simple, honest, hard-working South American doctor...
...able at last, using traditional forms, "to convey her unique sensibility by sheer luminosity of language." And Between The Acts managed (not quite successfully, Mr. Daiches feels) to create an image of the whole past and present of England and resolve its mysteries and disparities in a nameless piece of music: "Was it Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Mozart, or nobody famous, but merely a traditional tune...
...Last week the new Office of War Information issued its first pamphlet: a detailed, bits-&-pieces account of underground resistance to Hitler in France, the Lowlands and the Balkans, by thousands of nameless patriots and by some known to the world, such as the Serbs' Mihailovich. Said Director Elmer Davis, summing up the message of The Unconquered Peoples: "When the time comes to create a second front it will be effectively supported as a front of liberation...
...have class, and it shows at every click of the camera shutter-in the way they handle their grunting green tanks, the symphonic grace of their close-order drill, the impressive torso power of their mass setting-up exercises. But it shows best in one chance shot of a nameless Marine, at liberty, decked out in blue & scarlet, sauntering along with the easy, uncoiled assurance of a fighting man who knows no one can lick...
...forty-five it was all over. The town was occupied, the defenders defeated, and the war finished." With these brisk, matter-of-fact words John Steinbeck begins his brisk, matter-of-fact account of the conquest of a nameless country, resembling Norway, by an invading force, resembling the Nazis. The Moon Is Down is Steinbeck's first important work of fiction since The Grapes of Wrath (1939), and the most resolute and dramatic piece of propaganda that has come out of World...