Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London reported that Soviet Russia, headlong in its winter offensive, had heightened its demands for a second front against the Nazis in Europe. Norway, rotten under conquest, strategically placed for sustained pressure on the Nazis, lay within naval and military reach of Britain. R.A.F. bombers, striking at Paris suburbs (see p. 23), raised the hope that perhaps in Germany's Occupied France the British might find an effective air front; Canada's No. 1 soldier hinted that they might even return in force to the French coast, feel for soft spots, press on toward another western front...
...killed or captured along the way. The survivor becomes, prematurely, the darling of the Nazi radio ("one Nazi against 11,000,000 Canadians"); a lone Canadian Army private (Mr. Massey), fed up with guarding the Chippawa Canal, polishes the Nazi off in democratic fashion (fists) before he can reach the sanctuary of U.S. soil...
Author Tomlinson (The Sea and the Jungle, Gallions Reach) is a writer with a very simple mind, almost tactile vision, and a somewhat self-conscious style that is widely considered good prose. A brilliant war correspondent in 1914-17, he grew to hate war so bitterly that he wrote Mars His Idiot, one of the anti-war books that helped disarm Britons psychologically between World Wars...
Actually, there is very little real criticism of films; there are reviews printed in papers, movie magazines, and trade papers, but few aim at sound criticism, and those that do reach a limited audience. The singularly weak effects criticism has on the movies at present is seen in the receptions given two similar films: "How Green Was My Valley" and "The Stars Look Down...
...floors of stacks, the small reading room to the left of the entrance accomodates no more than 35. Scholars who plan to use a large amount of source material over a period of a week or so may keep it on shelves in this room within arm's reach...