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...once described her novel as an attempt "to pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee." In true Dickens' fashion, she wrote about insufferable aunts, cruel schoolmasters, and orphans' asylums, and made them all as black as the corridors of Thornfield. But she added to her novel a vivid sense of melodrama, replete with thunderstorms, dark castles, and voices drifting across the moor...
...Rose-Todd was in Robin Hood too-and they play the man and maid with a pleasant innocence and archaic grace. Actors Gough and Justice, also in the previous pictures, are admirable swashbucklers both. The local types are nicely interpolated-a red-cheeked Gaelic extra makes such a vivid vernacular dither with a Highland air that she steals a big scene from the lovers...
...most vivid conflicts in the play are self-conflicts: Queeg's agonized attempts to keep a grip on his emotions, Greenwald's rigid determination to put a hood over his conscience. As Queeg, Lloyd Nolan plays brilliantly, is as self-revealing when still in control as when losing control. Henry Fonda's sober courtroom Greenwald is in fine contrast both to Queeg and to Greenwald drunk. The whole cast, from John Hodiak's Maryk on, is admirable: out of the stylized nature of the court-martial has been forged just the right style for a theater...
...Eliot's plays are remarkably like complex mathematical equations painted in vivid colors upon a canvas. Beautiful in conception and poetry, they are still quite meaningless if one cannot solve the formulas and reinterpret the symbols. A number of people laughed when members of the Institute for Advanced Study whispered that Eliot was writing Greek letters on the Institute's blackboards, during his year of residence there. Far from trying to emulate the physicists and logicians, Eliot was merely working his own kinds of unique mathematics; all of his plays fir the same two forms, the simultaneous equation of Greek...
What they did during the war and how they did it is the story Theodore Roscoe tells in U.S. Destroyer Operations in World War II. Based on action reports, official records and personal accounts, Author Roscoe's 581 double-sized, double-column pages give the most vivid and exhaustive description of U.S. destroyer accomplishments likely to be written in years. It is too detailed to become a popular success, but those who like to go down to the sea in books will find its pages packed with action...