Word: text
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book is a text (some 30,000 words) to some 160 of his pictures. It throws sharp light on cartoons which are serious and gay, ribald and sentimental, tough, touching and bitter-the best cartoons to come...
...Caxton text briskly refurbished into up-to-date English by Editor Harry J. Owens of Chicago's Lakeside Press, Reynard emerges again, a lively and unscrupulous opportunist, still happy to live by his wits in picturesque unrespectability. "A thief, a traitor and an assassin"-in the words of his archenemy, Isengrim the Wolf-Reynard remains a likable rascal...
...typical day, he was whisked 50 dusty miles by auto from Regina to Indian Head, Saskatchewan. In the town's 100-seat theater, he labored stolidly through his speech. Chief points: Canada's war effort has been sad; there must be military conscription for the Pacific war. Text finished, he talked brightly with the farmers about crops, had tea, raced for Regina and his train...
...uses contrast effectively (a taut-voiced announcer says, The voice you hear will be that of the Conqueror: the man of the hour, the man of the year, of the past ten years and the next twenty-and a hesitant, uncertain G.I. voice speaks up). Corwin's text likewise relies on sharply contrasted images...
...before, Pastor Martin Niem&2461ler, leader of Germany's Confessional Church-and one of Christianity's most effective anti-Nazi weapons-had been liberated by the U.S. Fifth Army. His first public act after eight years of imprisonment was to conduct a religious service, based on a text he had long since chosen for this moment...