Word: remains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theme is a stimulating one, and handled with proper emphasis and directorial skill. One might wish to see the pacifist remain true to his ideals and declare once for all that, when it comes to war, the individual must assert himself even if it was contrary to the group. This is a vital problem, one of dramatic and almost necessarily tragic intensity, which "So Red the Rose" has introduced, but not fully developed...
Especially hard hit are the young tutors who have just taken wives. They seem to be punished for their faithlessness to their former mistress the Arts, whose Bachelors once they were. They must either remain within hale of the university and bear the brunt themselves, or move out into the suburbs with more agreeable living conditions. In the latter case the University as a whole suffers, for the students are clearly put at a disadvantage when they cannot reach their preceptors and consult them...
...Anna Karenina" at the University this week is certainly not Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina." True, the essentials of the plot remain, and such changes as have been made are justified by the necessity of condensation. But the spirit of the original has been lost and the characters vitiated beyond recognition. Only Anna and Alexei Karenin retain a spark of life; the others are bloodless lay-figures. Least excusable is the mutilation of Konstantin Levin--in the book a sensitive, passionate, inarticulate, self-contradictory idealist, but reduced in the picture to a formal and awkward lover. Frederick March was no more...
...Remain sweet and serene in order to conquer the desperation of separation...
Most Italian reporters seem to fit into the bargain the Dictator offers them: "You eulogize my Dictatorship and I protect your jobs." As to foreign correspondents, the longer they remain in Rome the more they lose their impartiality. Some turn sour and smuggle out whatever they can smell against Fascism. Others settle down sweetly to write as if on the staff of a supereditor who happens to be directing not only all the newsorgans of Italy but all Italy...