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Israel Joshua Singer's big book, published two years ago, was The Brothers Ashkenazi, a chronicle of Polish Jewry told against a background of the textile industry of Lodz. Critics praised the vigor of its narrative, verisimilitude of its atmosphere, especially its detachment. Some critics called it a Polish Forsyte Saga; a few went so far as to call Author Singer the Polish Tolstoy...
...upon that fact was equally direct: "Is it not ... better to have a program of reform substantially completed than to have to look forward to important changes not begun? With the emphasis shifted from reform to recovery, this Administration is now determined to promote that recovery with all the vigor and power at its command...
...death of the Pope last week caused a lull in international war drummings, celebrations, diplomatic and social functions. Italy stopped its violent newspaper campaign against the European democracies for a whole three days, renewed it early this week with new vigor. Gracious comment on Pius' death in German newspapers was that he was a "political" Pope and the next one should...
...morning of Barcelona's capture, Radio Barcelona warned the approaching Rebels that the "city will be defended inch by inch, house by house, street by street." This bold talk reminded the world that Barcelona had smashed the local Fascist uprising in July 1936 with speed and vigor not duplicated anywhere else in Spain. The revolutionary Anarchists, Communists and Socialists-who had learned their discipline and their politics in the only large industrial centre in the country-proceeded to clear Catalonia of Franco forces and chase them half way across Aragon...
Though They Made Me a Criminal is little better than a narrative stencil, Di rector Busby Berkeley and his cast gave the picture enough vigor, detail and pace to make it first-rate entertainment. Good sequence : Johnnie and the Dead End kids going swimming in an irrigation tank, and getting trapped when the owner starts let ting out the water...