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...itself a brief lapse into professional sentiment, the New York Times took editorial note of the end of the 19-day newspaper strike, which had cost nine New York dailies $30 million. Said the Times: "The sounds dear to the newspaper man's heart, the clattering Linotypes, the thump of the make-up man's mallet, the thunder of the presses, the soft swish of the emerging newspapers: this song will not be silenced...
...Vagabond shut the door of his room behind him and fell onto the couch. He kicked off one shoe, listened to the thump with which it hit the floor, kicked off the other one, and listened to it thump...
...thump of five military bands, the army that had fought two wars and waged many a border skirmish wound its way back without incident to the Mediterranean plain. In a ringing, patriarchal oration, B-G reviewed its triumphs: "The state arose not through the decision of the U.N. but through the determined will of the Jewish people and the heroism of its precious sons and daughters...
...Marina decides to live, and she comes bursting out of her doll's house with all the thump and golly of an oldfashioned, wear-the-pants, want-the-vote feminist. Along with his last-century liberalism, alas, Moviemaker Cacoyannis brings a last-century sentimentality. But somehow, despite its faults, the film is all of a piece, all of a personality, well cut and remarkably well photographed. It is just possibly the best full-length talking picture ever made...
Gogol had once said it was his duty to "die with a song on his lips." In fact he died at 42 in a barbarous nightmare of half-savage Russian medicine, with leeches on his famous nose and mad medics trying to thump the devil out of him. Gogol had a strange power over the Russian mind. Says Biographer Magarshack in a just summary: "This conviction . . . that it was his transcendental mission to save Russia, an idea that was completely divorced from reality . . . was the tragedy of his life." Yet, in a sense, though Gogol could not save...