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...university broke another custom by letting "the pride of Virginia, Mr. George Catlett Marshall," speak at the convocation. He recalled wartime conferences with Britons. The idea of understanding lighted his words again, this time with warmth. "We almost invariably reached agreement no matter how complex the issue...
Fronti Nulla Fides. Cripps in his non-public character is warmly human. His family motto "Fronti Nulla Fides" (Trust Not to Outward Show) is appropriate; he scorns good fellowship in appealing to voters, preferring facts, figures and measured arguments, but British workers have always sensed the warmth of the man behind the prim bearing...
...noted since A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, worked on a play and a movie, had a new book about Brooklyn coming out next spring, meantime mused to an interviewer: "I'm getting too used to luxury. Writers shouldn't have too much comfort-all they need is warmth and enough to eat. . . . What I long for is the feeling of dreaming of a bright future again...
...playing after school, a full-scale Agnes de Mille ballet; for wedding music, a virtual cantata. His most uninspired thoughts reverberate through loudspeakers; his quietest desires are wired for sound. As a result, Allegro gets too big for its roots and too elaborate to have an honest Our Town warmth. Snapshots in family albums lose some of their character and charm when blown up for public display. That way they show their defects more plainly...
Boomerang achieved a physical and moral portrait of an entire community. Kiss of Death, working in a darker, narrower field, among the criminals and policemen of a great city, lacks the older picture's richness of theme and its warmth, variety and brilliance. But in its own way it, too, is a clean knockout. It is also something new and welcome in U.S. crime movies. None of its criminals is glamorous, nor does anyone piously point out that crime does not pay. Nobody has to. The whole picture amply demonstrates the fact...