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...moving forward. In and around the cities, bulldozers, pneumatic drills and rivet guns played an unending symphony of progress on new homes, new factories, new office buildings. The "for gotten man" of New Deal days was ven turing his capital in small businesses -millinery shops, hamburger stands, ma chine shops. In labor-union meetings, most of the talk centered on how to get new benefits, not on how to keep up with a runaway cost of living. At the office coffee breaks, the talk was easy and calm, not about the coming war or the coming depression. Moderation...
...Author Conrad regards Gulf Stream North as the completion of an "idiom trilogy" that began with Scottsboro Boy and continued with Rock Bottom. When the men of the Moona Waa Togue "crap up the captain" (praise him), sing their work chanteys ("Who emptied out the bottles from hea-a-ven-n-n, and let the rain fall down-w-w-n-n?"), or joke about the odor of their cargo ("Mellow, eh fellow . . . Real mellow, fellow"), their talk seems the bonus catch in Author Conrad...
...twist on the Hollywood technique of using giant casts--this film's cast of thousands remains silent throughout the whole ninety minutes. These actors are the trees of Northern California. Tall (thanks to nature) and dark (thanks to fuzzy photography), these plants have an air of dogged determination and ven group solidarity. The film's live cast does its best to emulate the trees by wooden acting and an old saw of a plot. But the humans come off second best in this saga of lumberjacks versus homesteaders in the wilds of Olde Californee...
...VEN. JOHN H. TOWNSEND...
Defensively Yale was masterful except for a peculiar five-minute lapse during which Columbia gained ground on running plays, completed wobbly passes, and finally, scored on an off-tackle smash for 28 yards by Ven Yablonski. The other 55 minutes saw the had-charging Blue line dumping Columbia's would-be hurlers onto the earth, the backers-up holding the trickiest ground thrusts to little or no yardage, and the backfield crippling the Lions with five (count 'em) pass interceptions...