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...another respect, the new educational emphasis on the war may prove unfortunate. To the student who is assailed on every side by unccasing if well-meant admonitions about his "duty," his "opportunity to serve," and so forth, the deside to escape will become well-nigh overwhelming. A "tonight be merry for tomorrow we die" spirit, never wholly absent in the college community, will feed on just such a desire, until it rises to fever pitch...
Part of the credit belongs accidentally to censorship and the camera. Censorship excised John Steinbeck's well-meant excesses. Camera-craft purged the picture of the editorial rash that blotched the Steinbeck book. Cleared of excrescences, the residue is the great human story which made thousands of people, who damned the novel's phony conclusions, read it. It is the saga of an authentic U. S. farming family who lose their land. They wander, they suffer, but they endure. They are never quite defeated, and their survival is itself a triumph...
This time Lon Chancy Jr. (in his first big role) is hulking, dim-witted Lennie, who looks like a moronic Mr. Deeds, has a well-meant, heavy-handed way of stroking puppies, mice and young women into rigor mortis. Actor Burgess Meredith is George, Lennie's somewhat brighter brain. Betty Field (who meets Director Lewis Milestone's requirements of "just a simple young small-town girl with a body") is Mae, the somewhat floozied ranch wife whose neck Lennie inadvertently breaks...
...Massachusetts was convinced that war was "wickedness, useless and stupid." Against such teachings, Dr. William Thomas Manning wrote to the New York Times that "Our moral sense as a nation is dulled. . . . Our present lack of national spirit is due also in part to a vast amount of well-meant but mistaken and misleading and really unchristian teaching about peace." Soon Dr. Manning, Bishop Lawrence, Episcopal Layman George Wharton Pepper, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick and others signed a trumpeting manifesto: "Sad is our lot if we have forgotten how to die for a holy cause...
...Neutrality Council's well-meant but ill-considered denunciation of pro-Japanese propaganda in the Chinese-Japanese Library necessitates a reply, to which I trust you can give equal publicity...