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...Incident often suggests the perfect minor work it might have been. Its compact story naturally fits the screen, and it is squarely in Hollywood's open-air action tradition. So much of the picture is so good that its occasionally thoughtless details are magnified. Worst example: instead of using an ordinary tree for the lynching, the picture introduces a dramatized, super-real contraption drenched beyond recognition in Little Theater lighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 3, 1943 | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

...because you, happy, cheerful, thoughtless, with the winning, innocent tactlessness of a child, shatter a belief which, I daresay, not one in 3,000 ever thought to question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 15, 1943 | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

TIME of April 6 prominently states, on the basis of the April FORTUNE survey, that "the idea of 'Union Now' with Britain or any other nation was rejected by the people." I am sure you had no intention of misleading even the thoughtless, but may I suggest that this unqualified statement may have that effect? . . . That poll can also be interpreted to show a remarkable trend toward the basic ideas of Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 4, 1942 | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

Although I am one of this thoughtless generation (13), I generally read TIME. In the Feb. 24 issue I came across your brilliant (oh, yeah!) expose of comic books. I was amazed: "An overseasoned, indigestible, nerve-shattering, eye-ruining diet of non-comic murder, torture, kidnappings, sex-baiting." Brother, don't make us laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 7, 1941 | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

...explanation for the HSU's refused to conduct the poll here, Gottlieb said, "The ballot's wording 'Do you want peace or war for America?" would not provoke much deep reflection and might encourage thoughtless responses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. S. U. NOT PEACE VOTE SPONSOR | 5/10/1940 | See Source »

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