Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Directed by grey, crop-haired Major W. S. ("Woody") Van Dyke II, U. S. M. C., Rage in Heaven is the kind of swift, smooth whodunit which Hollywood can achieve by letting its good performers perform without unnecessary interference. Well fitted for such free rein is Swedish-born Ingrid Bergman, who makes a patterned ingénue role as important as many a prima donna's meatiest dramatic excursion...
...little like a Rollo book on an international scale, or Tom Swift and His Electric Historoscope. The history is cursory but abundant and palatable; the excursions into art and love combine "progressive" views with a captivating boyishness. The book is perhaps above all impressive as a demonstration that an almost moronic cheerfulness is not necessarily the foe of intelligence and sincerity, of which Sinclair has plenty. The '20s were a crazy, tragicomic incubator of a catastrophic future. Sinclair makes that, and the grim lines which sharpen their terrible convergence a few years later, perfectly clear. He also makes...
...great Dean Swift made his famed "Modest Proposal" for curing the economic ills of Ireland: sell its starving children as dressed meat. Last week U. S. book reviewers were in receipt of a modern modest proposal. No less grisly than the Dean's, it was not even supposed to be ironic...
...short, plump, jovial fighting man who comes from a long line of noble fighting men. His father was Husein-ibn-Ali, onetime King of Hejaz, and he traces his ancestry in the male line straight back to the son of the daughter of Mohammed. He likes to drive in swift motorcars, breed fancy camels and play chess all night...
...line of McLen, Carton, and Hazen passed Bob Kayser, three times inside of thirty seconds to sew up the game. Harvard's defense was utterly unable to cope with the stick-handling and skating ability of these three when short-handed, and Kayser was at the mercy of the swift Blue forwards...