Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mania against the people who stayed home during the war, especially Jews. While the remainder of the plot is not especially original in itself, the story benefits from excellent acting and a couple of well-done, anti-prejudicial speeches by Robert the First. These things make the picture novel and worth-while entertainment, but its producers could actually have gone much further with the social idea and left out some of the unnecessary, dramatic flairs. Minor complications arise at the outset for the audience and the detective when a harmless soldier, who is first suspected of the crime, bemoans...
Rambling through a novel of Ludwig Bemelmans is like eating in an expensive Viennese tea shop. The descriptions are like cups of rich chocolate, topped with heavy whipped cream; the plot is as easy to get through as the flaky Austrian pastry; but later on the gourmet may feel that the frothy repast had a residue that is unexpectedly heavy. "Dirty Eddie" has many of the characteristics of its predecessors: the sensuous surface of champagne, nylons, and silly, suggestive talk remains as lush as ever, and if there is any change from the old Bemelmans, it is that...
...Manhattan meeting of the American Chemical Society last week, two novel elements made radioactive bows. One was man-made curium, No. 96 in the periodic table and the heaviest element known. The creation of curium was announced in 1945 (TIME, Nov. 26, 1945). But the element was not "isolated" (purified chemically) until recently. The world's total supply, prepared by Drs. Isadore Perlman and L. B. Werner of the University of California, is barely big enough to be seen with the naked...
...about the same degree of critical genuflection-and popular indifference-that French Man of Letters Gide has learned to expect. At 77, it is unlikely that he will live to see his popularity catch up with his reputation (based mainly in the U.S. on one novel, The Counterfeiters). A handful of intellectuals have made a cult of his uncompromising intellectualism; others have sought out his books, having been assured that they might be shocked. But more readers have been discouraged by his stripped, austere style and involved ethical themes than have been shocked by Gide's involved and discreet...
...mind" sequences are neither novel nor completely clear. At least the purpose of the whimsy in the Pinocchio--Jiminy Cricket combo was evident from beginning to end, but here Massey's mind is a rebellious servant, while Massey minus mind is a master. The idea is frightening, betokening perhaps a now return to sentimental emotionalism, where we send though packing and live in a make-believe world of noble savgery...