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...chief miracle of this film-and there are many small ones-is that its makers realized that a dream must be presented, even at its weirdest moments, matter-of-factly and on its own terms. So they never once make it too easy for the audience, either by "explaining," or by approaching unbelievable moments cautiously, or by showing any sly amusement or apology over a detail that is odd or out-of-date...
Chicagoans have endured-and some have even enjoyed-some strange music recently. They have heard the sounds that Milhaud and Hindemith make, and last week they listened to the weirdest of all, the dissonant music of Austrian Arnold Schönberg, the father of atonality. The Pro Arte String Quartet worked its way through the composer's cacophonous String Quartet No. 3 and then played his familiar Transfigured Night, which he wrote in 1899, before he ran off the melodic rails. When Quartet No. 3 was over, the loudest applause came from the sixth row, where lively, gnomelike...
...There Is No Peace. The veteran Communist negotiator in Chungking, General Chou Enlai, openly proclaimed an all-out struggle for control in Manchuria, where the Russians were slowly pulling out. Factional bitterness was weirdest at Kaiyuan, Manchuria, where the Government's U.S.-trained First Army had broken through a Communist blockade on the road north. There, when a Government-Communist-U.S. truce team arrived, the First Army's commander promptly put the Communist trucemakers in protective confinement, lest they be shot or captured by Communist forces...
Tidy Attitude. One of the weirdest chapters in the report deals with the state of Hawaii's Coast Artillery Command. There were three regiments under Major General Henry T. Burgin. But their activities were limited 1) by "important and influential civilians on the island" who objected to artillery using their land for gun positions, and 2) by Ordnance's reluctance to let them have any ammunition...
...Lonely Street. I went in with the 29th Division to take München-Gladbach yesterday in one of the weirdest actions of the war. The resistance consisted mainly of isolated detachments of nondescript troops who fought briefly at street corners. Those who were left surrendered quickly and with relief. This is the way it would go. A tank passed us and went down the absolutely lonely and deserted street through the ranks of neat and excellent two-story stone buildings, the kind of street that gives you that terribly lonely, naked feeling of snipers and trouble around...