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...this quality that makes The Raft much more than another saga of human heroism of which there will be many before World War II ends. The special quality of this book is that it restores and documents by deed something that has long been lacking from men's books and minds - a sense of the therapeutic goodness of the unflagging will to live...
...mean regionalist himself, chesty, 33-year-old Reader Derleth, who writes 500,000 words a year, has only 40-odd volumes to go before completing his Sac Prairie Saga in progress...
Ostensibly the saga of honest vs. ruthless salvage-masters off the treacherous Florida Keys of a century ago, the film is actually just a vehicle for every trick of camera and color, every bluff of gargantuan settings, every cliche of plot and dialogue in DeMille's too familiar repertoire. "Reap the Wild Wind" lacks even the barest spark of originality; it is slow, sticky and indescribably dull. Its possibilities as melodrama are almost completely submerged in an orgy of gross spectacle...
Conductor Wallenstein pored over 120 operas, picked what he thought were the most artistic, entertaining, representative. To start the series, he shrewdly selected the best-liked U.S. folk opera: George Gershwin's jazz-flavored saga of Charleston's Catfish Row, Porgy & Bess, now a smash hit in its Manhattan revival. To get the Broadway cast, headed by Anne Brown and Todd Duncan, arrangements had to be made to hold the theater curtain until...
From his work on a Medieval art thesis at Harvard, to the job of the French voice of WRUL, is the saga of William Tyler, program director of that station's broadcasts to the French people, "through the walls of the Nazi prison...