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This is in response to your request that I of 1904 write something for the forthcoming Anniversary issue of the CRIMSON. The response is made very gladly because I am pleased to know that CRIMSON editors of the present time still recognize those of a class as far back as...
(Richard Jaeckel) neck in the parlor. Forsaking his usual swashbuckling roles, Burt Lancaster plays the sleepwalking Doc with great earnestness, but his performance frequently makes the character seem wooden rather than frustrated. It is in Shirley Booth's characterization that the movie really catches fire. Making her screen debut...
The Devils of Loudun, by Aldous Huxley. A skillful account of the epidemic of devil-possession which beset the French town of Loudun in the 17th century, and of the rash priest who burned for it (TIME, Oct. 6).
The best of the books about World War II was Australian Chester Wilmot's The Struggle for Europe. Its blunt criticism of U.S. foreign and military policy aroused some resentment, but there was mostly praise for its skillful, informed exposition of the fighting side of the war. Commander Edward...
The Devils of Loudun, by Aldous Huxley. A skillful account of the epidemic of devil-possession which beset the French town of Loudun in the 17th century, and of the rash priest who burned for it (TIME, Oct. 6).