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...niceties burned away. Sentences are marched out without a full complement of nouns and verbs. Oddly, the very flatness of his writing leaves the horizon clear for the experiences he describes. There may be more comprehensive illustrated histories of the war, but none is likely to come closer than WWII to conveying the feeling of how it was to be there...
...WWII represents a return to the subject that James Jones has never really left. For the past several years he has been working on Whistle, a long novel that will cap the war trilogy of From Here to Eternity (1951) and The Thin Red Line...
Jones set aside his novel for six months to write WWII. "This project fascinated me," he says. "It gave me the chance to editorialize in a way that my novels do not. When I write fiction, I have to worry about the idiosyncrasies of my characters. In WWII I could concentrate...
...carrying out the orders of superiors, or even those of God, after the massive Pentagon propaganda deliberately designed to make a monster of the "opponents." No such extenuating circumstances can, however, be used to excuse those responsible for the criminal foreign policy acts of successive Washington administrations since WWII...
...Janus Film Festival the films change every day, and every one is a classic--the most notable being Jean Renoir's Rules of the Game (1939), brilliant film both verbally and visually, that gyrates between starkly powerful drama and very funny comedy. Rules of the Game dissects pre-WWII French society with such precision that it caused riots among bourgeouis audiences when first released. It was not shown again until the late...