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...little of it was new, though much of it could stand retelling: The God That Failed, by half a dozen celebrities who had swallowed the Marxist hook but didn't have the wit to gag until they got to the sinker; General Walter Bedell Smith's saga of ambassadorial frustration, My Three Years in Moscow; General Frank Howley's account of day-to-day business with the Russians, Berlin Command; Vladimir Petrov's My Retreat from Russia; ex-Leftist James Burnham's The Coming Defeat of Communism, which blueprinted a strategy for Western victory with...
...last week, some 250.000 freshmen at colleges all over the U.S. had had a chance to read the saga of Ted; most campus COs apparently were convinced that Ted's primer-simple story was just what their freshmen would go for.* Without consulting with each other, Colonels Summerall and Stancisko had come to a contrary conclusion, left their stocks of Ted undistributed. Explained West Pointer Summerall last week: "You've got to consider the type of institution...
American Guerrilla in the Philippines (20th Century-Fox) muffs a promising chance to do justice to an authentic saga of World War II. The movie was filmed in the Philippines, so that even a fictional treatment might have preserved a semi-documentary tang. Instead, taken either as fiction or reportage, the picture turns out to be as counterfeit and hackneyed as a comic-book adventure yarn, and not nearly so well paced...
South Pacific (Majestic, 44th St. W. of B'way) is still a great hit, now starring Ray Middleton and Mary Martin. Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate, (Shubert, 44 W.) with Anne Jeffreys and Ted Scott, is still packing them in. The Saga of Lorelei Lee, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, (Ziegfeld, 54th St. and Sixth Ave.) continues with Carol Channing and Yvenne Adair in leading roles...
...taken as realistic reporting of Southern life, Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha saga makes little sense. It is based on his lifelong devotion to the Mississippi scene, but it is no mere copy of that scene. Rather it is a grotesque, symbolic version, in which the dimensions of reality are wildly distorted to make them more vivid. Sometimes, his writing seems almost like a prolonged hallucination-a hallucination crowded with extraordinary characters and violent actions. Moreover, for any Northerner to believe that Faulkner's world is limited to the South would be complacent provincialism. When Faulkner describes his Yoknapatawpha County...