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Surprisingly, Grand Old Man Park, unlike some of his Unitarian brethren, is not chary of Christology. Says he: "The type of sermon I'd rather write and read than any other is one which has to do with the life and spirit . . . of Christ...
...Searching Wind. Robert Young and Sylvia Sidney in Lillian Hellman's angry film sermon against umbrella-carrying diplomats (TIME, July...
...Searching Wind. Robert Young and Sylvia Sidney in Lillian Hellman's angry film sermon against umbrella-carrying diplomats (TIME, July...
...Searching Wind (Hal Wallis-Paramount) is an angry film sermon against appeasement. Skillfully adapted from her own angry Broadway play by Lillian Hellman, the picture is an intelligent and frequently moving job. By Hollywood standards, it is highly courageous : it not only grapples with knotty political issues but it dares to address itself to grownups who can read without working their lips...
...diplomat father did nothing to avert. But most of the Wind's virtues and practically all of its faults must be credited to Playwright Hellman, who generally manages to mix propaganda and playwriting pretty deftly. This time her plugging runs away with her plotting: the outsized portion of sermon occasionally preaches more convincingly than it plays...