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...Dante: "Milton was right. The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words 'Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.' There is always something they insist on keeping, even at the price of misery. ... It has a hundred fine names-Achilles' wrath and Coriolanus' grandeur, Revenge and Injured Merit and Self-Respect and Tragic Greatness and Proper Pride...
...itself there was a sense of national achievement. By the '305 the bang and sparkle of this literary Fourth of July was as spent as a dead rocket. To an inquiring Briton, an American would have to reply: the outstanding U.S. novelists are John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath), Ernest Hemingway (For Whom the Bell Tolls), and John O'Hara (Appointment in Samarra). Protest had turned into corrosive petulance or special pleading for the Left. Frustration had replaced anger. No U.S. writer saw U.S. life whole; and even the scrap he saw, he usually saw over...
...modern South to Howard Morrick, enlightened Yankee author, and defender of Nevvy's naturalness, which alone succeeds in surviving its environment. Brett's intelligence and experience with unprejudiced white folk in European towns leads to actions which arouse in his mother, Bella, the Langdon housekeeper, a fearful wrath at his flaunting the law that "White is White, and Black is Black...
Austere Rev. Dr. Alexander James Wilson, editor of the United Church Observer (circ: 38,000) in Toronto, heard about it, did some commendable leg work, found that Moo Cow was indeed listed (No. 15) in the young people's song sheet. Then he unleashed his righteous editorial wrath...
...most part, the action is painstakingly slow. But John Ford's expert direction, some beautiful camera work, and excellent performances by the principals keep it from dragging. Working for Director Ford (The Informer, The Grapes of Wrath), actors always seem to be more like themselves-or at least more like human beings-than they are in other pictures...