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...Washington last week, the U.S. Navy issued a pious pronouncement. It had banned From Here to Eternity, a movie about sex, sadism and misery in the pre-World War II Army, because the film is "derogatory to a brother service." The Navy took this solicitous stand despite the fact that the Army-Air Force Motion Picture Service had already approved the movie. Said Brigadier General Frank Dorn, the Army's deputy chief of information: "The general reaction at the end is good for the Army...
...Back Door, at Night. In 1212, when Clare was about 18, a strange and pious youth named Francis, the son of Assisi's rich cloth merchant, came to preach a Lenten course of sermons in the church of San Giorgio. In young Francis, who had dedicated himself to God and poverty, Clare knew at once that she had found the inspiration of her life. She appealed to him to help her leave the worldly world, as he had done. Together the two future saints concocted a holy plot. On Palm Sunday she appeared in church with her mother...
...piece as a whole, its derogation of career employees, its repetition of some of the most moth-eaten of the spoilsmen's cliches, such a qualification loses any real meaning or force. Virtually every attack on the merit system in history has been advanced under the cover of pious protestations. But when those attacks have succeeded -as they sometimes do when public vigilance falters-the real nature of the evil virus of spoils is fully revealed...
Added the Sydney Morning Herald: "If 50 years ago the Germans found it impossible to defeat the spread of Pidgin . . . the problem now facing Australia is insuperable. The simple fact, of course, is that . . . Pidgin English has become a language in its own right, and no matter how many pious sentiments are expressed in the U.N. or elsewhere, its use and continued spread cannot be curbed." In other words, no matter how much busybody ol man bilog pies longwey (foreigners) fuss and fume, ol man bilong Nugini will go right on making toktok as they please...
...younger brother is dead, betrayed as a partisan to the Nazis by a friend. When the soldier announces that he is out to avenge the death of his brother, the villagers, weary of bloodshed, shun him and refuse to identify the betrayer. The soldier's best friend, a pious carpenter (Alain Cuny), falsely confesses to the crime in order to put an end to slaughter. The soldier kills him and, in the act of killing the wrong man, is left impotent for further slaying. In the Christ-like figure of the carpenter who sacrifices himself to save another, Malaparte...