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Giving jocular recognition to the one female graduate of the University who was accidentally invited to the banquet, Acheson began his address, "Lady and Gentlemen." He quickly passed to a more serious vein in an analysis of two basic dangers threatening the country. One he labelled the psychology of controversy, perfected by Hitler, which achieves unity by hatred. "And no controversy is safer than one with the foreigner," he explained." His defenders at once become suspect. So a field which is difficult enough, where more than anywhere widespread agreement is essential, becomes a peculiar prey to controversy...
...Walker and the late Courtney Ryley Cooper, whose credo is that the old bars were the best, and that the only thing to do with a tall tale is to make it taller. Solo has many moments of awed moralizing, semi-penitential, Hollywood-haunted sentiment. But throughout runs a vein of the old, Rocky Mountain, free-&-easy Fowler yarning...
...Double Indemnity, Ranald Mac-Dougall, Catherine Turney and Michael Curtiz followed up last year with Mildred Pierce, less expert yet crudely exciting. But the screen version of The Postman Always Rings Twice, the first, most ferocious and in some ways best of Cain's novels, suggests that the vein is running...
...fifth month of prospecting, the Pearl Harbor Committee at last unearthed a rich find-a broad, deep vein of comment and discussion of the 1941 tragedy by ex-War Secretary Henry L. Stimson, studded with pure history in the form of notes from his diary. Significant excerpts...
...present book is an autobiographical fragment in the same vein. The Blue Boy of the title is Giono himself. His father runs a little cobbler shop. His mother operates a small home laundry. Through neighbors he learns to distinguish Bach from Mozart, Scarlatti from Rameau. A strange, dark visitor to his father's shop gives him Hesiod, Homer and the Bible to read...