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...looks through This Is War!, with its vivid combat scenes and unforgettable warrior faces, can doubt that Duncan has succeeded magnificently. In these 150 pages of pictures, the bruising war of the foot soldier is fixed in a succession of moments that make captions superfluous (Duncan uses none). To capture such moments, Duncan had to become, in effect, a front-line soldier. Only in that way could he get close enough to photograph the grenade in flight, the finger squeezing the trigger, the first instant of surprised shock of the wounded...
...next 70 days, the commissars of the NKVD tried to strip his mind and spirit in more systematic ways. How close they came without actually succeeding makes up the chilling better half of Invitation to Moscow, a book of vivid wartime reminiscences by one of Poland's top lawyers and political men. Taut, spare, sharply observed and recorded, it is the most convincing account yet of that indigenous Soviet phenomenon, the phony confession. Beside it, even Arthur Koestler's brilliant Darkness at Noon bulges a bit at the suppositional seams...
Must your newspaper's critics relentlessly follow their hapless brethren down the road of diluted rot where there is no integrity, no craftsmanship, no clear and vivid expression and where measurements and analyses serve alone to convey the vanity of that elegant man of letters who with perfect taste in every line prides himself in being above his work? Or can the CRIMSON recognize an artistic aim and rise to the occasion of true criticism by doing justice to actor, playwright and their readers who willingly subscribe five cents daily for enlightenment and ask so little in compensation. David...
...playgoers in The King of Friday's Men (TIME, March 5) that he can trip the light fantastic tongue of Ireland as well as any man. Yet when he comes to write, the tongue seems to wag the man. Except for a few set pieces, e.g., a vivid description of a storm and some fine, clear passages of Irish speech, Rain on the Wind is a standing example of what happens when Erin goes blah...
...Alpe-d'Huez, scene of the championships, has a fine bobsled course; it also has vivid memories of 1944, when German occupation troops tricked French resistance groups into the open and mowed them down. It took a French Foreign Office check of the records-and the discovery that none of the German bobsledders ever served near L'Alpe-d'Huez-to reconcile French opinion. Even then, the German team decided not to fly the German flag from their hotel, not to wear insignia...