Word: splendide
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Philip Merivale, resembling Black Jack Pershing in mufti, plays the doctor so feelingly that he becomes an object almost for sympathy rather than dislike. He does two splendid bits: 1) when he handles a copy of the New Masses as though it were a bushmaster (see cut), and 2) when his emotions get the better of his rigidity and, standing ramrod straight, he tells his fiancée: "I love you." Unfortunately the finely conceived and acted doctor is surrounded by drama that wavers uncertainly between comedy and solemnity. The comedy, as often with Behrman, tends to be forced, brittle...
...congratulations to TIME for its splendid, superb "Slaughter on Fifth Avenue" (Jan. 27). Thoroughly complete, delicately descriptive of a terrible tragedy, "tops" in word phrasing, it is a perfect portrayal of a singular sorrow in a warped world...
...What a long time it is since the British came here, a century and three-quarters since they became dominant! They had a free hand, as despotic governments have, and a magnificent opportunity. . . . And yet. . . what is India like today? A servile state, with its splendid strength caged up, hardly daring to breathe freely, governed by strangers from afar; her people poor beyond compare, short-lived and incapable of resisting disease and epidemic; illiteracy rampant; vast areas devoid of all sanitary or medical provision; unemployment on a prodigious scale, both among the middle classes and the masses...
...German publication Natur und Kultur, ten authors launched violent attacks on the doctrine of organic evolution, accepted as an ABC fact by all biologists of standing in free countries. Gist of the German argument: Adolf Hitler and other splendid Aryans could not conceivably have evolved from...
MAIGRET TO THE RESCUE - Georges Simenon - Harcourt, Brace ($2). Another splendid brace of Inspector Maigret stories translated from the French. Frequent dollops of Pernod improve everyone's perceptions...