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...book is written in Stein style at its Steiniest, and reading it takes more than most readers want to give. Even admirers of Gertrude Stein will be grateful to Thornton Wilder for his luminous introduction. Wilder's advice to the reader: be intelligent enough to put aside the vanity of intelligence; relax and listen. The reward: a pleasurable sense of listening to nonsense that is unique...
Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, a fun-loving, hard-working Hollywood writing-directing team (Ninotchka, The Lost Weekend), came home from Europe conscious of one big difference between U.S. and European movies. To the New York Post's Archer Winsten they explained...
Ever since V-E day, Hermann has had his sights set on the U.S. He read all the books he could find in Berlin by American authors (Tom Paine, Walt Whitman, John Dos Passes, Thornton Wilder). Working on the staff of Die Neue Zeitung, American-edited newspaper, he learned to speak fairly fluent English. Finally an Institute official, serving with the American Military Government in Berlin, lined up the big chance for him to study...
Thanks to the fact that the ice was broken with the Wilder-Sistrom movie of James M. Cain's Double Indemnity, Hollywood can now get by with filming this kind of shabby "realism." The blessing is mixed. Apparently, U.S. moviegoers have matured to the point where they will stand for reasonably frank images of unhappy marriage, sour love affairs, and of a disease so gravely epidemic as Mr. Young's obsessive desire to stay in the money at all costs. But in this, as in most such "adult" movies, the semi-maturity is well mixed with trashiness...
Helson, a Math major, received the Wister Prize--$65--as the Senior with the highest record in the fields of Music of Mathematics, while Epstein earned the Elizabeth Wilder Prize--worth $40--for turning in the best mid-year examination paper in Elementary German...