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...shrewdest aspects of the maneuver was its propagandistic effect. Once again, in plainest terms, the U.S. had informed the people of France that Pierre Laval could not be trusted; that he was an Axis tool; that Americans would help Frenchmen anywhere under any circumstances except when they willingly give outright aid to Hitler...
...sense that his book had a reader. Mr. Levin's volume on Joyce is designed to be read along with Joyce's works. On Joyce's powers of characterization, on his Swiftian moral grandeur, and on that almost Shakespearean humaneness which alone could delight the plainest of readers, he is obtuse as only a hyperintellectual can be. But on those intricate obscurities which put off most plain readers, and on Joyce as a technician and theorist, he has written the best guidebook and the most brilliant criticism to date...
Prime Minister Churchill had nothing to say about a Minister of Production, about Munich, or about anything else. But the plainest words spoken to Winston Churchill last week came from one of his and one of Lord Beaverbrook's good friends. Said the scholarly London Economist, partly owned by the Prime Minister's friend Brendan Bracken and the Beaver's first lieutenant Sir Walter Layton...
...Communist Party, then posturing as the Workers Party; on "the Cult of Russia-Worship"; on the "Communist Milquetoast" (Earl Browder); on "Stalin's Children's Hour" (The American Youth Congress); on "the Typewriter Front" and "the Intellectual Red Terror." "Cocktails for Spanish Democracy" includes some of the plainest and clearest speaking yet heard on the befogged subject of the Red stake in Loyalist Spain. Less outspoken (for reasons of libel) is the chapter on "America's Own Popular Front Government," the Communist penetration of the New Deal...
Putting her trust in her honey-blonde hair, a little seashore hipper-dipper, and the eye-brimming distinction she imparts to the plainest photographic studies, 20-year-old Gloria Wood, star-minded daughter of Director Sam Wood (Kitty Foyle), petitioned in Los Angeles court for permission to discard her cinemagic name, call herself just K. T. Stevens...