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...Most vivid scene: a tank battle, showing Soviet soldiers riding on tanks up to the enemy's lines and then charging into the mouth of his guns. Through tank gun-slits the camera looks straight down the barrel of Nazi anti-tank guns, firing at point-blank range...
...secretary so humanly addressed was young Francis Biddle of the Philadelphia Biddies, now U.S. Attorney General. He has made an offering in the form of a biography to the memory of the man he thinks may come to rank with Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln. Biddle's vivid sketching reinforces a central impression of Holmes also to be had from the monumental Holmes-Pollock Letters (TIME, April 14, 1941)-that this giant of U.S. law will ultimately be valued as a phenomenally warm, wise, skeptical, humble human being...
After recovery a patient's emotional responses are vivid but somewhat superficial. He is indifferent to social amenities, may speak his mind and joke so tactlessly that he embarrasses his family and friends. Yet he will apologize for his behavior with real sincerity. His foresight is impaired. Some of these changes would be undesirable if the alternative-an unchanged psychotic personality leading to complete insanity-were not much worse...
...another cigarette and put on "Body and Soul." Three days after the game, and he still had a lot of vivid impressions. Players and spectators pounding anyone within reach after the field goal. More of the same after Richards' punt return. Then the picture got blue. Something seemed to snap when the referee called that play back, but Cleo's interception put the players back on their feet. And then there was the horrible nightmare of number 14 going diagonally across the field with nobody in Crimson around. The failure of that last-minute drive was just too much...
Louis Verneuil's book is the first fully documented biography of Sarah Bernhardt in English. It is a little too reverential, but gives a vivid, intimate report of the legendary Sarah. Biographer Verneuil is La Bernhardt's grandson-in-law who, like all her household, except her son Maurice, always addressed Actress Bernhardt simply as "Great." Verneuil is also a French playwright who is known in the U.S. for his Broadway plays (Oh, Mama, Matrimony Preferred) and movies (True Confession, My Life with Caroline...