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...UNQUIET NIGHT (122 pp.)-Albrechf Goes-Houghfon Mifflin...
...noteworthy only as a vehicle-and a transatlantic conveyance-for Dame Edith Evans. Probably the most distinguished of English actresses has come over from London in it, to waste her own time, though not entirely her audience's, on Broadway. Playing an aged baronet's rudderless, unquiet middle-aged wife-a woman in whom drink brings out the tarnish rather than the truth-Dame Edith hardly so much fleshes the role as clothes it with her own distinction. Her consistent sense of style and capacity for the grand style, her brilliant gifts of comedy, gesture and language throw...
...feeling in France," he said, "that America's preoccupation is only with material things. What I have seen here makes me think that the U.S. has great possibilities of taking on spiritual as well as material leadership. I think there are signs of a new awakening in the unquiet and anxiety about their spiritual selves which I have found in so many Americans. We in France have scarcely been aware that so many Americans are worried about so many aspects of American life...
Inevitably, the decision provoked some shudders. Could good grow from the fresh, unquiet grave of evil? The U.S. and its postwar Allies had decided that the answer must be yes, if Europe (and all the West) was to have peace, prosperity and freedom. The German who more firmly than any other assured the U.S. that its decision had been wise, its hope not misplaced, was an aging, clear-eyed politician from the wine country along the Rhine: Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, without doubt the most important German since Hitler...
Graves burst open. The unquiet dead, in frenzied legions, issued-screaming, backward through time toward life. And the living on Battle Hill became stricken with strange conditions of mind and body. "What is happening to us!" men cried. And one wiser than the rest replied: "One of the vials of the Apocalypse...