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Rather their job is to dig up background information and usually-overlooked detail, so that TIME'S editors can give you the taste and smell and feel of the battles around Africa's rim -and the quality and flavor of the men who are fighting those battles and preparing for new ones and secretly working to win without battles...
...letter accompanying the questionnaire, President Conant predicts "that the record will be of the greatest interest to the Harvard community, as well as constituting a background of historical material which will be a source of pride to the future Harvard generations." In the first World War 12,000 out of 40,000 Harvard alumni participated...
...somehow "Kings Row" has an appeal that is unique among the ranks of modern heavies. Hitting at some delicate pillars of accepted conduct, the picture has the force of a sermon well organized, and very well delivered. And the background music of Wolfgang Korngold makes the setting fit the earthy tone of the film...
...background are crowds of expressive Chinese faces and a few cub pilots who pay the price of inexperience. Despite the part played in combat sequences by the famous shark-toothed Curtis P-40's, "Flying Tigers" falls far short of the possibilities suggested by its namesake...
...problem which Daiches poses is a crucial one. How shall a sensitive artist with a rich background in the fairly stable tradition of the nineteenth century write about a society where public values have broken down almost completely, and even personality is in flux? The critic traces Virginia Woolf's attempt at a solution, from her earliest novels, through her boldly experimental short stories, to the great achievements of her middle period, and the less successful attempts of her later years, which were carried off by sheer virtuosity in her command of language. He shows how she introduced the lyric...