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...made haphazard by a collection of overpaid addleheads who speak only a few words of English; or 2) the result of a mass inspiration upon the most miraculously gifted group of creative artists ever simultaneously assembled on the globe. Twenty-five years ago, movies were indeed manufactured helter-skelter by almost anyone who had $5,000 and an urge to see his name or image magnified. Influx of money and brains long since turned Hollywood's film studios into sharply defined units organized along the lines of most other agencies of mass production, except that the nature of their...
...Young) tagging along, his four stout sons-Beano (George Sanders), Nosey (David Niven), Stinky (Richard Greene) and Snigglefritz (William Henry) -set out from ancestral Saint John-cum-Leigh (pronounced Sinjin-comely) to un-smirch the escutcheon. Guided by Director John Ford (The Informer, The Lost Patrol), their juvenile, helter-skelter quest roams two hemispheres, seldom loses its bearings. By thrusting Hollywood's dreamiest-eyed glamor girl smack up against a methodical machine-gunning of a screaming mass of helpless men and women, Director Ford shows modern war technique in outlines no cinemagoer can fail to comprehend. When, after that...
...climax of her career, it made up the dullest chapters of her book. Long (488 pages), overcrowded with the names of poets, A Poet's Life seems both tired and genteel, as if Harriet Monroe had made a last attempt to make her vehement, impoverished, helter-skelter poets intelligible and respectable to plain middleclass, middle-Western citizens, but found their careers as contradictory as their poems...
...Project began its monumental task of giving the U. S. a more up-to-date "detail portrait of itself" in August 1935, when WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins picked a bespectacled, slow-speaking ex-lawyer, ex-newspaperman, ex-publicity agent, Henry Alsberg, as national director. The survivor of a helter-skelter career that included editorial writing on the New York Post, a year as secretary to the U. S. Ambassador to Turkey before the War, a post-War job as the Nation's foreign correspondent, a term as director of the Provincetown Theatre, Director Alsberg started his big job by picking...
Joyce's post-Ulyssean prose style is composed almost entirely of dream-scrambled verbalisms (Anna Livid Plurabelle, Work in Progress) which by some are highly touted as a significant experiment, seem to others merely words in a helter-skelter retreat from significance. Joyce himself used them sparingly in Pomes Penyeach (1927), eschews them entirely in Ecce Puer (1936), his single four-quatrain poem written during the last decade. His later poems, which in general hew to the line of modern Irish minor verse, in their essential scope are no advance over his earlier pseudo-madrigals. All arise from...