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Last week all the survivors were charged with assault to commit murder, but Sheriff Mixon held that Sterling Garlington, in critical condition with a collapsed lung and splintered spine, "had the right to kill in self-defense. The hunters were strictly the aggressors." The other Garlington and the wounded hunter were in a fair way to recover. At her family's isolated ranch house, Leola Garlington was bitter. "Those dogs come in, and they've killed all our goats and hogs and the little calves," she gritted. "We don't want dogs on our place...
...tone of Soviet life, and for the first time in a Communist-printed work, explicit references are made to the melancholy effect on Soviet professional life of Stalin's wide-sweeping 1936-38 purge: characters bemoan the disappearance of families and friends for crimes they did not commit. Last week the Congress of Soviet Writers, meeting for the first time in 20 years, found that The Thaw had them skating on very thin...
...agreement, but the British press seemed to think otherwise. The idea was "startling" to the Daily Mail, which editorialized on its front page: "As Dr. Wand reminds us, forgiveness is a Christian virtue. But so is chastity ... We are told, in the Seventh Commandment, 'Thou shalt not commit adultery.' It does not say, 'Thou shall not commit adultery more than once.' Or more than twice . . . Is a single act of infidelity to be applied only to one sudden fall from grace, or also to an infatuation that may go on for weeks and then end forever...
...field, professional-football champions are described as not "unduly sober citizens," who "belt the bottle or some barroom companions"; on the field, they endeavor to dismember opponents, pile on the runner, and commit various forms of mayhem. What an inspiration to American youth...
...blame, as Scobie blames himself, for their unhappiness. A crime against Heaven, added to his crimes against men, seals Scobie's fate. He takes Communion, while in mortal sin, in order to hide that mortal sin from his wife. With the despair of the damned, he determines to commit suicide. "God, condemn me!" he cries. "But give rest unto them!" The ironies that ricocheted so savagely through Greene's final pages are all forsaken in the film for a pitifully sleazy out; just as Scobie is about to do himself in, the job is done...