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...fastest, most exciting pictures of the year. Unlike the "Falcon," "Across the Pacific" will not make movie history. Its plot and script, dashed off on a typewriter far less subtle than Dashiel Hammett's, are standardized portions of spy melodrama. The usual number of dead bodies up tortuous alleys combines with some amazingly handy Johnny-on-the-spot acts to make for a film which in other hands might have been only a better than average second feature...
...President Roosevelt's war aims, Adolf Hitler delivered these tortuous sentences: "It is also a very witty thing if, for instance, a President says: 'We want that in the future everybody shall have the right to suffer no further want,' or something similar. One can only say to that that it would have been much easier, in all likelihood, if that President, instead of having jumped into war, had used the entire labor energy of his country in caring for his own people and in order to build up useful production of his nation, which, in spite...
Grey Skies. The pathway to the ultimate goal of a United Nations advance from the South Pacific is long and tortuous. Closer to Tokyo by 600 miles is the U.S. air base at Dutch Harbor. Here last week, at the northern end of the Japanese arc, U.S. air power struck a solid blow...
...many the British had was their own secret. Over the tortuous Allied supply lines-by plane across Africa, by ship around Africa's tip-some men and equipment had reached them, but their losses at Tobruk had been great. Last week members of a U.S. ground crew established camp, raised the U.S. flag over a tiny sector of the desert. Medium bombers flown by U.S. pilots have been flying alongside British bombers for some weeks; harassing Axis supply lines. The British had superiority in the air before the fall of Tobruk. They probably still...
...most of it was "practical letters," along with the lively related arts of "oratory, pulpit eloquence and pamphleteering." It was rich in symbolism, which "tends to dominate folk expression." It was rich also in a sense of evil. The Salem witch burnings were "cumulative folk-obsessions." Jonathan Edwards "induced tortuous introspections." Charles Wesley and the "dark fire" of his fellow Methodist, George Whitefield, kept the nation incandescent with revivalism for a generation. Calvinism, a scientific bent and poverty, gave early U.S. art a flair for abstraction...