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...pity is that in itself the story is strongly moving. The sacrifice of self for the sake of others is surely one of the profoundest experiences that human beings have attained, and it is not often that this experience has been so sharply dramatized as it is in the life of Gladys Aylward. Something of the woman's flame-simple, stone-actual spirit is unquestionably preserved in the film, but all too often the religious force of her example is prettily dissipated in the delusive grandeurs of the wide screen, and safely explained away in entertainingly heroic tropes...
...Brothers Karamazov (MGM) is Hollywood's retelling of the Dostoevsky classic. Like all great works of art, the novel has an elusive way of being all things to all men. Psychologists have hailed it the profoundest of all psychological novels; diplomats still read it as a key to Russian life and temperament. To historians, it is a bomb of a book that shattered the complacent pane through which 19th century Europe surveyed the weather of the soul. To the religious, it is a prophecy of the apocalypse that has been visited upon the 20th century, and a sovereign medicine...
This is not to "take sides" with the Anti-Vivisection Society, or with either opposition in the recent legal breaching of the Animal Rescue Societies by the Medical Laboratories in Massachusetts. It is to say that some of the profoundest thinkers on the troubles of our times have pointed out a peril involved in scientific animal experimentation which does not clearly face the meaning of the physical torture it is based upon, and that such residual indifference to suffering is a breeder for the gas chamber and human lamp-shade...
...Heard from the State Department that Nationalist China's Ambassador Hollington K. Tong had delivered the Chiang Kai-shek government's "profoundest regrets" for an ugly incident in Taipei, Formosa: a mob. angered by a U.S. Army court-martial's acquittal of a G.I. charged with voluntary manslaughter of a Chinese, stormed into the U.S. embassy and injured at least nine U.S. citizens (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...learning of a university is of the profoundest value," Shahn added, but felt that one should work at some job before entrance. "No knowledge is not pertinent to the work of an artist," he insisted...