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...days after the old man's condemnation, the Ministry of Justice announced: "General de Gaulle . . . has commuted the death sentence ... to perpetual imprisonment." From Portalet Petain would be transferred to Sainte Marguerite Island off the Riviera. There he would have sun and warmth. His wife, freed of all charges, would join him. But he could not have his seven stars back, nor his honor...
Though scarcely a "modern" 1872 woman, Miss MacWatters' acting was satisfactory and her voice delightful arousing the only spontaneous applause of the evening and adding color and warmth to the show. The supporting cast showed remarkable coordination for an opening night and kept the play lively and interesting by diverting attention from the book...
...examines specific aspects. The secondary school, it concludes, must be concerned with the physical and mental health of its pupils. ". . . The educational process has somewhat failed of its purpose," says the Report, "if it has produced the merely bookish youth who lacks spirit and is all light without warmth...
...like a puppet show than a flesh & blood comedy, and its dialogue is in dialect as formal as the colloquy of Mandarins. The puppets often strike tableaux which have charm, irony and even beauty, of a kind. But it is a kind so rigid and remote from simple human warmth that honest laughs come few & far between. It is an unusual, skilful and singularly lifeless little picture...
First contact with that world usually came as a sharp shock. Sometimes it bred effusive warmth, sometimes icy resentment. Many Germans at first looked on the Americans as liberators, then relapsed into timid docility. Some went on smiling, trying to be friendly, until finally they understood that the Americans were all but anesthetized against them...