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...case you get no reactions except that the Vatican has gone over to Moscow, or that Catholicism and Communism are peas in a pod, or that cardinals wear red hats because of their cunningly disguised political sympathies, may I say that your story is an ably written explanation of a unique religious and political situation. It delineates an intelligent Christian who has tried to do God's will in a complex problem. Whether precarious compromise is better than bloody martyrdom is a judgment few of us are qualified (or, fortunately, called upon) to make...
...group of young men who tried to separate the cops from the drunk were quickly joined by habitues of the Pod Jeleniem and Pod Gryfem bars and the Centralna and Magnolia cafes. Soon the Aleja Wojska Polskiego was crowded with 2,000 grim, destruction-bent Stettiners. Out of the intense anti-Soviet feeling that floods Poland today came a focus for their violence: Stettin's Soviet consulate. Soon the mob had broken into that building, wrecked and looted its contents. Only when the Stettin Communist Party committee called in sober-minded shipyard workers, students and local militiamen were...
...sights and fecundities of nature. If the novel has a drawback, it stems from what might be called Colette's gland-directed theory of personality, a tendency to reduce all thought to desire, all spirit to sensation. But rarely has the self-contained world of adolescence burst its pod under the touch of so loving yet unsentimental and sharp-eyed a gardener...
...flower or bud stuck in an empty lipstick container, the cap off a toothpaste tube or an empty perfume bottle. Sofu even went so far as to dye flowers, incorporate red bird feathers, use dried grass, withered leaves and dead flowers. A current popular Sofu arrangement: a dead lotus pod with a purple delphinium...
Movies in 1954 turned out to be considerably better in quality than they have been for a number of years-but most of the good ones were not made in Hollywood. The economic strain of the early '503 burst at last the giant pod of cinema talent in Southern California. Able, creative people-producers, directors, actors, cameramen-were scattered to the four winds. Some drifted into television, but quite a few went off to the film capitals of Europe, where they stirred new life in the local talent...