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...frail, adventurous André Malraux. When his three-volume Psychology of Art was published in the U.S. in 1949-51, it was welcomed with raves-and a good deal of honest bewilderment. Wrote Critic Edmund Wilson: "It is hard to judge very brilliant books, which may dazzle, deafen and stun when they explode under our noses, but [this is] perhaps one of the really great books of our time." Malraux himself was not so pleased with the book; it suffered from poor organization and a turbulent, over-intricate style. He rewrote it as a one-volume work, The Voices...
...involves his future father-in-law in the crime. What is good about the film is the full-bodied characterization of the killer as a man willing to compromise -but only up to a certain point-to save his own life. Its chief surprise is an ending calculated to stun moviegoers accustomed to Hollywood's sin-must-be-punished production code...
...screened as antiCommunists. A bunch of Red troublemakers were ordered to come out of one compound; when they refused, U.S. troops, backed by four tanks, were sent in to fetch them. The Reds hurled spears and barbed-wire flails; the Americans retaliated with tear gas and concussion grenades which stun but do not kill. Fiercest fighters of all were 600 Red amputees who hopped about on their stumps, using their crutches as clubs. Nine G.I.s were wounded; one Red was killed, 84 wounded...
Doughfeet Right Behind. In early Korea actions, infantrymen were slow in following up artillery concentrations on enemy positions. Since artillery fire often does little more than stun a well-dug-in enemy, this delay lost them the advantages of artillery preparation. Eighth Army veterans now close in confidently behind the last bursts, calmly watch their own "outgoing" stuff land 100 yards away from them...
...Epithets Stun Ushers...