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...story's golden opportunities are polished bright-some of the fad stuff could hardly be funnier-but too many are dipped in common brass. The tunes, all but one called Imagine, are routine musicomedy, and the lyrics are of the sort that rhyme "baritone" with "aware o'tone." Even so, as crackpots go, Louis Calhern is a Ming vase, and Evelyn Varden provides at least one fine moment. At the Mr. Universe contest, while Steve Reeves is straining to lift the crucial bar bell, she glares at Purdom and hisses: "Don't just sit there! Hold...
...Brock tries, in a sort of romantic, Irving Stone style, to read the great man's thoughts, the portrait of the remote and terrible Turk turns into semifiction. After an early setback, for instance, Ataturk is made to muse: "Yes, Pasha, and like that monstrous egg in the rhyme for children, you had a great fall." In the end, Author Brock's purplish flights-the old roughneck gallops off as a kind of ghost rider in the sky-obscure the black-and-white facts of Ataturk's life, which was more fantastic than any biographer...
...young for the drive toward goals on the frontier of work has been replaced by the mass-media effort to "train the young for the frontiers of consumption-to tell the difference between Pepsi-Cola and Coca-Cola . . . We may mark the change by citing an old nursery rhyme...
...rhyme may be taken as a paradigm of individuation and unsocialized behavior among children of an earlier era. Today, however, all little pigs go to market; none stay home; all have roast beef...
...million buffaloes roamed the plains. Disney fails-partly because of the smug, fatherly pats of approval he keeps giving the animal kingdom, as though he personally had founded it with Mickey Mouse. Here and there, however, the picture has a patch of beauty briary enough (as the nursery rhyme puts it) to scratch a man's eyes in. Some patches...