Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allmost Descureged." When Johnny Comes Marching Home is a timely history of homecomings from the U.S.'s three major wars : the Revolution, the Civil War, World War I. Author Dixon Wecter (The Saga of American Society; The Hero in America}, professor of English at the University of California, has written a fascinating study of the profound tension and misunderstanding between civilians and veterans, of civilians' short memories and seeming ingratitude, of veterans' increasing success in rewarding themselves through their organized political strength...
...picture much less faithful to fact could have been much more true. And Cecil B. De Mille has great respect for fact. But he is a born romancer, a highly experienced showman, and old-fashioned in both fields. His talents, as well as his limitations, conspire to turn a saga of simple heroism into a typical Hollywood entertainment feature. But they also hamper this picture as simple entertainment...
Quiet Type. But Mild & Bitter had no record of hair-raising escapes. Her saga was one of good luck and almost monotonous efficiency. She had lugged 166 different airmen to battle; 26 were decorated, but not one got a Purple Heart. During her robust career she acquired some 50 flak holes, but never any damage that Bill Stuart and his ground crew could not repair overnight...
Most striking Losch oil: Saga in Five Movements, which was five paintings in one and an allegory of the life of woman to boot. In it Woman 1) emerges hopefully from adolescence, 2) meets a lover under a tree in Eden, 3) wanders in solitude, 4) swings on a symbolic bar between heaven and earth, 5) returns to a home and children...
First of all, Ginger Rogers while a fine actress, is no Gertrude Lawrence, and certainly cannot put over a song the way she could. The "Saga of Jenny," one of the most amusing songs over to be sung in a movie, is still good, but it doesn't make the hit it did when Gerty sang...