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...this time there are few literate people in the United States who don't know William Saroyan's philosophy of life. "I love to see people happy; things should be this way all the time," declares the hero of "The Human Comedy," first Saroyanesque venture into the realm of the motion picture. And the author drums away at his simple theme reel after reel, in a film which occasionally reaches heights of emotion and feeling rarely equalled on celluloid, but which descends to the maudlin almost as often...
...glass and silver, over the flowers and champagne, all so enclosed and private and secure, one who had been King, one who had been dictator, and one who was to be: what did they have to speak of but the dirt on a miner's neck? In the realm of ideas it was like an invention by Salvador Dali, not least because in the grotesque juxtaposition was revealed so much of . . . their sense of the necessity to acknowledge what they could not experience in their hearts because life lad set them too high, the agenbite of inwit, the gnaw...
...speaker was Lieut. General Carl Spaatz, U.S. commander of Allied Air Forces in Northwest Africa. He was explaining an exercise in war and semantics -the movement of his forces from the realm of "superiority" to that of "supremacy." This had been achieved by the three arms of his command...
...reason for all these typographical fireworks could only be conjectured by Angelenos. But definitely not in the realm of conjecture were these facts: 1) two years ago Scenarist Mankiewicz had collaborated with Actor-Producer Orson Welles on the script for Citizen Kane, a picture which irresistibly reminded many of the career of William Randolph Hearst; 2) the film reportedly made Publisher Hearst seethe...
...British Speakers-and there have been few bad ones in recent times-Captain Fitzroy had to become a political agnostic, impartially guiding the business of the House. In social scale he ranked next below the Prime Minister and the Lord President of the Council, before all peers of the realm except archbishops...