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...blast of a rare "blue norther," Florida's pole bean and tourist crops were imperiled by frost, the temperature plunged to 22º below in Laramie, Wyo., and the entire northeast was smothered under snow that seemed to fall endlessly, making the average commuter feel his kinship to Nanook of the North...
...happened to be a masterpiece. Pather Panchali is perhaps the finest piece of filmed folklore since Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North. It is a pastoral poem dappled with the play of brilliant images and strong, dark feelings, a luminous revelation of Indian life in language that all the world can understand. In the three years since Pather Panchali was released, it has won five grand prizes at film festivals from Cannes to San Francisco. And everywhere discriminating moviegoers have plied the turnstiles in modest but impressive numbers-everywhere, that is, except in the U.S., where the film...
...fight against Ghengis Khan. I said that Nanook had to organize a cavalry to meet Ghengis Khan's horsemen. His army rounded up a herd of polar bears and harnessed them to carts. Some of the girls were pretty skeptical about this, so I told them how hard it was to train polar bears. 'Once they got going, though,' I said, 'all hell couldn't stop them...
...girls had been to high school and they knew Ghengis Khan hadn't been defeated by a bunch of Eskimos, so I had to figure out a way for Nanook to lose the battle. 'Well,' I'd tell them, 'You know how much dust there is in China. Nanook's army just couldn't take it and they all got tuberculosis. It was a terrible slaughter from which the Eskimo civilization never recovered.' This satisfied most of them and when I mentioned the names of one or two professors working on the translation they practically worshipped me. Intellectually, you might...
...because the story couldn't really hurt anyone. When those girls got back to Utah or Iowa they would have told their mothers about Nanook and the shining cities. After that, their mothers would have told their husbands, and the husbands probably would have told their friends. Just think of what it could have done for the Eskimo's reputation...