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...people and be hit, for he is never, as was Lardner's Midge, "stopped by a terrific slap on the forearm." The women in the movie are less convincing--the spectator is never more moved by them than is the hero, who shuttles from one to the next with singular unconcern. They aren't very important, anyway: once Kelly begins fighting, he is always a fighter and only sporadically a human being...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/20/1949 | See Source »

Since fewer meals will, presumably, be taken at the Dinning Halls, I find it very singular that the average, and hence the total, charge per person should rise rather than diminish: in other words, that the Dining Galls management either cannot deal accurately with figures or does not wish to, two alternatives which one is equally reluctant to accept. Harold P. Furth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Meal Contracts | 3/19/1949 | See Source »

Sinclair Lewis' new novel concerns Aaron Gadd, a carpenter by trade, who by a singular series of half-convictions, and somewhat to his own surprise, becomes a missionary to the Sioux Indians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aaron Gadd | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Complaints against HLU competition come with singular ill grace from the current management of the University Theater. Back before the lush wartime days, the U.T. used to make some effort to cater to the tastes of college audiences, particularly in its Wednesday Review Day programs. Now Review Day itself has been all but abandoned, and its few recent appearances have mostly featured faded M-G-M moronities like "Cass Timberlane" instead of such films as "The Informer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Disagrees with U.T. Plea | 1/18/1949 | See Source »

...Pluribus Unum. No technical innovator, Author Cozzens demonstrates his theme by the popular "Grand Hotel" method of assembling hordes of people, all with singular points of view, in one place-a huge World War II airbase. in Florida. Some of them are elderly, Regular Army officers to whom the mechanics of war are as vital as the winning of it. Some are much too bogged down in personal miseries and prejudices to recognize the overriding claims of victory: others are far too intent on victory to show any tolerance for human weaknesses. In fact, as Author Cozzens shows, the marvel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Human Odium | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

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