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Vardis Fisher's candid, uneven, sometimes powerful tetralogy (In Tragic Life, Passions Spin the Plot, We Are Betrayed, No Villain Need Be) reminded critics of Rousseau, Zola, Dostoyevsky, Dreiser, D. H. Lawrence (but not, oddly enough, of Thomas Wolfe). This four-decker autobiographical chronicle told the tormented story of Vardis Fisher's fight to free himself from acute egomania and puritan repressions...
...best motion pictures of 1937 starred Paul Muni in (1 Wells Fargo, 2 Night Must Fall, 3 The Life of Emile Zola, 4 Tovarich, 5 Conquest...
...public, on the grounds that "the testimony was of a nature involving danger to the state and people." Thus without trial the state has predetermined that Niemoeller's utterances are "dangerous", and there is no reason to suppose that this attitude will change during the trial. The movie, "Emile Zola" is proof enough that the welfare of the people is better served when the principles of justice are observed than when they are overridden by an autocratic government which determines by itself what is for the general good. To promote justice, not material well-being, is the highest duty...
Again TIME errs! All of Zola's works are not on the famed Catholic Index of Prohibited Books. A friend of Zola's challenged him to write one book that would not be banned. Zola's The Dream can be read by Catholics-TIME'S statement notwithstanding...
Many authorities believe that Emile Zola wrote The Dream because he wanted very much to get into the French Academy. It is almost aggressively innocuous, but beside Emile Zola's name in the Catholic Index librorum prohibitorum are the words opera omnia, all his works including his snowdrop among weeds," The Dream...