Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roars up the desperate skill and clamor of the "men who fight to live." Both the intrepidity of reason, and the intrepidity of whatever the Japanese use in its place, are caught in The Fleet That Came to Stay in a relationship beyond all logic. It is not a pleasant film. It is an immemorially primitive nightmare in extremely modern dress; a dance of death...
...reporting the courtship of the future Mrs. Rickenbacker (Lynn Bari), equally pleasant attention is given to the one-step, the waltz, even the schottische, to tunes like Too Much Mustard and Missouri Waltz. There is much easy fun with linen dusters, carbide headlights, rachitic engines and foozling radiators. For well-articulated comedy and for beauty of evocative detail, this is one of the pictures of the year...
Winston Churchill, had already left London. Tired out with campaigning (see FOREIGN NEWS), he rested at Hendaye, a pleasant town and international rumor factory on the Spanish-French border. President Truman planned to cross the Atlantic and then France without seeing Charles de Gaulle, who will visit him later in Washington. Since it would never do to give the impression of an advance Anglo-American caucus, Truman and Churchill decided not to meet before they reached Potsdam. Stalin was coming by train over rails recently changed, all the way to the Elbe, to the broad Russian gauge...
...time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things: of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--and of how John Huntington has taken off his straw hat and put on his Easter bonnet, and made the change very successfully. "Alice in Wonderland" is, as always, very pleasant nonsense...
...pleasant ironies of history that the Federalists built the government so strongly that when they lost control of it they were unable to tear it down in order to return to their former allegiance...