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Balancing gingerly on slippery, icesheathed ladders, firemen hacked with axes at the stubborn screens and bars, taking costly long minutes. Finally they clambered inside. They found one woman, two hours after the fire had started, seated calmly on her third-floor bed; her nightgown was partially coated with ice and she was surrounded by fallen debris. "Are you all right?" a fireman asked. "I think so," she said. Taking her by the hand, he led her to a ladder at an open window. "Some of them were like animals who had something new happening to them and didn...
...then that the more cataclysmic weapons were brought to hear upon the serenity of the still untroubled minds. Big Bertha could be leveled against those stubborn areas of complacency which ideas could not infiltrate. War swept the world of many of its illusions, delusions, and ideals, leaving behind--in the sensitive areas--small groups of "The Lost Generation" conversing aimlessly around the tables of the Cafe Dome. Some sort of bottom in disillusion of man with himself was reached with the publication of "The Waste Land...
...kind of social welfare program over which Ernest Pugmire presides is a sounder attack against the enemy than all the processions General Booth might lead today through Sheffield, and sounder than street-corner revivals. Ernest Pugmire's kind of attack also requires courage, and a Christian's stubborn patience and faith...
Both the white young boy who works to save an arrogant and stubborn Negro from a lynching, and the Negro himself, are obscure characters in the film, though they are most important ones. Many things in the movies compensate for the loss of Mr. Faulkner's method of storytelling, but to have been a thoroughly satisfactory piece of drama, the principal characters, particularly the boy, need more dimension...
...stubborn, aging (63) leader, the flight across the sampan-flecked Strait of Formosa was a time for bitter remembrance. For China, and the world, it was the end of an era. A quarter of a century ago, with Sun Yat-sen's mantle on his shoulders, young Chiang had marched up the mainland to Nanking and into a new Nationalist China. He had embraced Christianity. According to his lights, he had sought to guide his nation into the mainstream of modern civilization. He had broken the warlords, checked an early international Communist conspiracy, survived Japanese aggression-only...