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...movie for a long time, want to watch an actress age 60 years in an hour, and enjoy all-star productions, then by all means see. "The Blue Veil." Beyond these sentimental attractions, however, producers Jerry Wald and Norman Krasna have squeezed little else from a dull, pointless story...
...Farmers Hotel is not only as pointless as any other death on the highway, it is also something O'Hara has rarely been: dull. If he was really trying to say something about love, violence and the irony of life, it never reached his typewriter. Not too many years ago, Writer O'Hara would have trimmed these 153 pages down to about...
Barefoot has some good scenes and some good writing, but suffers even more from lack of sensibility and of art than from lack of drama. It has snatches of Shavian cleverness jostling scraps of Socratic wisdom and ponderous suggestions of The Private Life of Helen of Troy. A dramatically pointless harlot tags after a comic-strip King of Sparta; and in direct competition with perhaps the most nobly serene death scene in history, Anderson introduces one all his own. Dramatists rightly take liberties; but Drinkwater did not have Lincoln assassinated at Gettysburg, and Shaw refrained from having Joan devoured...
...still practicing, Williams shows in his Autobiography that he still writes in a hurry. Like the best parts of his Paterson poetry (TIME, July 16), the book crinkles with unpremeditated kindness, an uncomplicated acceptance of ordinary humanity. But, like Paterson, it is oddly erratic, even pointless at times, with commonplace anecdotes and trailing reminiscences. It is the kind of book a man might have written for himself and his friends, random recollections never meant for a critical eye. But "Doc" Williams has always written for himself. Of a critic who once doubted the worth of his poetry, he wrote...
...Communists were obviously hurt. Their propaganda complained that Van Fleet's attacks were "openly inviting war" - a pointless accusation, in view of the fact that it was agreed when the truce talks started that the war would continue until a cease-fire was signed & sealed...