Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days. Jungle Road is General Bob's story of the infantry in that war. Coming after such chesty accounts as Seaman "Bull" Halsey's and Airman George Kenney's, it seems almost sober and reflective, but it is a tribute to the embattled foot soldier and a deeply felt one. No army general spent so much time at the front and few appreciated so clearly what they were asking of their...
...times during "City Lights" the dramatic cliches that Chaplin habitually used become apparent. But Chaplin's superb pantomime seldom allows the plot to become any more, important than a background. A drunken Millionaire befriends Chaplin, and then tosses him aside when he becomes sober; a blind Flower-girl takes him for a "gentleman," and falls in love with him. That is the basis of the plot...
Until a few weeks ago the 11,000 citizens of the sober little town of Saint-Junien in central France got along all right with their Communist mayor. Then M. le Maire Martial Pascaud decided to make a gesture of obeisance to his masters in the Kremlin. Tottering old Communist Leader Marcel Cachin paid a visit to Saint-Junien. To mark the occasion, Mayor Pascaud marched a party of 100 local Communists down Saint-Junien's main street, the Boulevard Leon Gambetta, to hang new signs on each corner rechristening the street Boulevard Joseph Staline. When the street...
...repertoire of Ivy League marches, the other has four medleys. For some reason John Finnegan's recent Princeton arrangement has replaced the first two albums' Leroy Anderson Medley; I prefer the elder one, but that is probably nostalgia for the square foot of rug. Finnegan or Anderson, drunk or sober, the re-issued album is precisely what you'd expect--a good...
...correspondents in Korea "drink too much [and] for the most part are incapable of a serious thought even when sober. These likable but stupid Americans send their articles to the newspapers which pay them. Their opinions on the Korean situation will form the opinions of millions. It is disgusting...