Word: reviews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last columns for Hearst's King Features Syndicate, Runyon wrote a review of his own work. Said Runyon of Runyon: "By saying something with a half-boob air ... he gets ideas out of his system on the wrongs of this world which indicate that he must have been a great rebel at heart but lacking moral courage . . . He is a hired Hessian of the type writer ... I tell you Runyon has subtlety but it is the considered opinion of this reviewer that it is a great pity the guy did not remain a rebel out & out, even...
...Vatican had known it would stir up such a storm in hundreds of thousands of minds. "The misguided or illusioned," said a Vatican spokesman, "will be obliged to review their ideas and cut off their [Party] membership...
Hungary's National Council of People's Courts, the country's highest tribunal, last week completed its review of Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty's life imprisonment sentence. Said Presiding Judge Peter Janko: "There is not the slightest doubt that Mindszenty should have been sentenced to death." The tribunal, however, let the life sentence stand because "the case lost its original importance with the arrest arid sentencing of the cardinal. . . The Catholic masses calmed down...
...Hiss had been a member of the Harvard Law Review, Justice Frankfurter told Lawyer Stryker. Yes, members of the Review were certainly young men of "intelligence, character and ability." In 1929, Harvard Professor Frankfurter had picked Hiss to serve as law clerk for the late great Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes...
...show centered on nine paintings of the Crucifixion, done in oils on thin paper. Rose had long been regarded as a decorative, eclectic artist with a low emotional octane rating: overnight his new pictures established him as a force in British painting. Said London's Art News & Review: "This remarkable series of paintings is not romantic or expressionist, as are most Crucifixions, but may rather be described as liturgical, ritualistic, learned and arcane . . . executed with great resource and command of the medium." Describing Rose as "an artist who believes in both Christ and Picasso," the Catholic Herald went...