Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only one shot at his. His ending is box office, his story not sharply pointed, but he does manage to convey the airless but comfortable feeling of Boston, the pitifully habit-bound horizon of his Pulham (Robert Young), and to turn out a half-dozen sequences that are superb cinema...
Many a man with big ears has become famous,* and Dumbo, who can wrap himself up and go to sleep in his, is no exception. The advent of war made him more than ever a superb expression of the democratic way of life. He could only have happened here. Among all the grim and forboding visages of A.D. 1941, his guileless, homely face is the face of a true man of good will. The most appealing new character of this year of war, he is almost sure to end up in the exclusive kingdom of children's classics...
...National Gallery's feeble Prench section like a shot of vitamins. Besides the Manet, rated as fine as the Dejeuner sur I'Herbe in the Louvre, Collector Dale's loan contained an assort ment of top-flight Renoirs, Degas and Corots, two Courbets, a superb Fantin-Latour, and important works by such 19th-Century painters as Eugene Delacroix and Jacques-Louis David. That Chester Dale's "loan" might be a permanent one was excitedly conceded last week in museum circles...
...speculation about the Pacific Northwest. Much of what she writes is guidebook stuff-dutiful chapters on landscape, legends, and the myths of Paul Bunyan (who is by now one of the biggest bores in the whole bleak record of synthetic folklore). There is also a good map and 48 superb photographs. But Mrs. Ross's humor, sensitivity to the ways of a people whose pioneer forefathers are not all dead yet, make Farthest Reach one of the best books written about the North west...
...Aldington, is, by & large, the best compendious poetry anthology in the English language. Less elegant than Palgrave's Golden Treasury, less aristocratic than Quiller-Couch's Oxford Book of English Verse, it is bigger around the waist than they are, represents in its format and arrangement a superb job of publishing. Anthologist Aldington, in making his selections from the entire body of English and American poetry, tries less to hit a poetical bull's-eye than a poetical barn door. His misses are few. All the great and nearly all the minor ancients are fully...