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With all its crusading and its stout effort to present a serious social problem to a mass audience, the film as a whole is better than the solution it offers. Like the novel, the movie contends that decent, intelligent people, who know better than to be anti-Semitic but take no militant steps to stamp out the social weed, are chiefly to blame for its hardy growth...
...scheme of "Tawny Pipit,"--a continual harping upon the "old English virtues" of fair play and hospitality, and an incessant probing to reveal that English life is good and decent and superior--epitomizes the disturbing introversion in British cinema. Begin with "In Which We Serve," and recall "Brief Encounter," "Blithe Spirit," "The Years Between," "Stairway to Heaven," or "I Know Where I'm Going," and the same preoccupation with British life and people, British mores and traits, and above all British virtues evidences itself. Even the fine film "The Captive Heart" about prisoners of war in Germany, is really...
This Friday well over a hundred Princeton football and soccer players will arrive in Cambridge to dig in for the weekend, but no representative of their hosts will meet them, see that admission is provided at the dances, or even assure decent living quarters. Among traditional rivals, who are supposed to be friendly ones, it does seem strange that such a neglect of the amenities exists...
...armed robbery law, it is high time Kentucky's citizens demand a revision. . . . A child of 13 . . . should not be governed by the same laws which apply to adult citizens. . . . We [have written] a letter of protest to the Kentucky state legislature, and hope that other decent citizens will do the same, to help protect our country's children from such medieval laws...
...advice on how to handle Moscow, Byrnes turned to no less an authority than Karl Marx, who wrote during another European crisis: "If the other powers hold firm, Russia is sure to retire in a very decent manner." Writes Byrnes: "For many reasons the Soviets do not want war now. They will, I believe, 'retire in a very decent manner.' But if the other powers do not 'hold firm' then, as Marx warned us of the Czarist Russians, 'conquest follows conquest and annexation follows annexation...