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Winter came on and Wadsworth, notwithstanding "the House was not half finished within," moved in anyway. The Overseers suggested completing it on credit, then thrusting the IOUs at the legislature. As indirection and pathos had failed before; so the fait accompli failed here, and Harvard finally had to plumb its own treasury for the eight hundred pounds due. Even then, Wadsworth House was not wholly done. 1783 saw the two wings and the ell on the north side. The brick part was built in 1810 as a separate unit and sixty years later was spun around to adjoin...
Nevertheless, right down to their final act of betrayal, the moviemakers are sensitively loyal to most of Greene's transcendent meanings, and catch them, like mysteriously luminous fish, in a well-spread net of images. The result is something less than Greene's brilliant attempt to plumb the nature of pity; but it is at least a cruelly beautiful picture of a man who made a sin of saintliness...
...rave reviews ("our most memorable young actor"), and he has backed the cinema critics into the adjective bin. They have felt in Brando's acting a kind of abysmal reality that not even Barrymore, who in all technical respects was far and away Brando's superior, could plumb. At moments he can vanish into the character he is portraying like a salamander into stone-or a tiger in the reeds. Said one thoughtful playgoer: "The only other place I've ever seen such a terrifying shift of identity is in a schizophrenic ward. But this...
Fierce-mustachioed, fiercely anti-Communist Author Guareschi* does not try to plumb the curious complex of politics, economics and emotional contradictions that causes millions of Italians to pray devoutly to God. confess to their priests, and cast their ballots for Communists. To solve this dilemma in fiction would be to do more than Italy has accomplished in reality. Some of the 25 sketches in this volume, like those in its two predecessors (The Little World of Don Camillo, Don Camillo and His Flock), show the marks of haste; all were written originally for a right-wing humorous weekly that Writer...
...Plumb Crazy. Most of the companies still trying to operate are British, e.g., Traders Jardine, Matheson & Cox, and Butterfield & Swire, and the British-American Tobacco Co. There are a few American interests still functioning, but they are under the same pressures. Example: the Communists are trying to make four U.S. banks pay off their depositors in the same way as the British banks. But in this the Reds will probably fail, since the dollar deposits are in America and the U.S. Treasury refuses to permit delivery of the funds to Chinese mainland branches. The only Western firm in Shanghai that...