Word: unreality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...retrospect of the traveler through life, the most eminently blessed come forth from among all ranks and orders of men, some being rich and others poor; some illustrious and others obscure; but all having one point of resemblance, that they have not staked their peace on anything so unreal as money or fame...
...Russians, almost to a man, could see no arguments whatever against a second front. They were fighting a war in one country-their invaded own. There might be war in Britain, North Africa, China, the Pacific -to Russians deep in their awful present, the global war was an unreal alibi for inaction in Western Europe...
...combat are fictional. The people who are supposed to give flesh & blood to Wake Island-a tough major (Brian Donlevy), a tough lieutenant (Macdonald Carey), a tough contractor (Albert Dekker), a tough team of comic privates (Robert Preston & William Bendix)-are sincerely invented and acted, but hopelessly unreal in so stern a context. Not even Brian Donlevy, who does his job as soberly as if it were a military assignment, can quite convince anyone that he is anything but the too-familiar, patriotic young actor, doing his best not to look like...
Into the austere, windy surf scene on the opposite page, into the realistic but unreal city below it, Raymond Breinin (rhymes with winin' & dinin') has put the quality that sets him apart from most of his Midwestern contemporaries: his mystical imagination...
Pearl Harbor split the academic year of 1941-42 into two distinct sections. Before December 7, the war, and everything to do with it seemed unreal and far away, but after the first bombs fell on Hawaii, Harvard, its students and Faculty, devoted themselves completely to the struggle, and anything else became superficial...