Word: document
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Note of Hope. Snake Pit's merit as a movie may be generally acknowledged; its value as an enlightening document may be questioned. Some hard-to-please movie critics have suggested that the picture might be harmful to the young and to the emotionally unstable, and that it should therefore be shown only to limited audiences. Psychiatrists, who have deplored most Hollywood explorations (and vulgarizations) of their specialty, disagree; they commend The Snake Pit in terms which studio pressagents could not improve on. It has even been seriously suggested that the picture be shown to borderline cases and patients...
Arguments for some sort of freshman document are perfectly sound. Its chief value lies in its photographs, which enable men to look up familiar faces and widen acquaintances. But there is little use for two such records, especially when they are so alike and one does not appear until sophomore year. Of the two, the Register, coming while freshman year is still young, certainly is the more valuable...
Biographer Sherwood clearly agrees with the Yank estimate of F.D.R.: "He was the Commander in Chief, not only of our armed forces, but of our generation." It is also Sherwood's contention, and he does much to document it, that in the war years Harry Hopkins used his vast, F.D.R.-given power wisely. Later historians may question the wisdom, but they will not be able to question the power. Nor will any historian of the Roosevelt era be able to ignore this book...
...cattle, self-preservation and pride--understandable feelings. Wayne is out to get Clift, also understandable. But the outdoors doesn't lend itself to a convenient ending. Only the tragically abortive assistance of convention can reconcile the two men. In the last few minutes, "Red River" degenerates as a document of the West and winds up in a burst of horse-operatic fervor. Better see the main part again, partner, to get the bad taste out of your mouth...
...thanks to the U.N. in Paris. The Security Council's first cease-fire cable to the Israeli government was ambiguous; it read like a suggestion rather than an order. Ben-Gurion and his ministers took a leisurely day and a half and four cabinet sessions to "study" the document and take full advantage of their luck. By the time U.N. got around to sending a clear cease-fire order, Beersheba had fallen and the control of the Negeb desert was solidly in Israeli hands...