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...education for privacy . . . there is equally urgent need for ... the establishment and maintenance of moral harmony. From the days of primitive religion, through Greek tragedy, the Christian epic of sin and salvation, and modern psychology . . . there runs the theme of the un easy conscience. The dramatic specter of moral guilt is the principal character in many of the greatest creations of literary genius. No matter what the learned explanation, the psychological state is one of inner moral disharmony ... It is a private affliction and must be cured privately ... A vision of the good life the spirit must have; for devoid...
...Escape from Fort Bravo took a fresh look at Hollywood's tired old Indian wars. Fred Zinne-man's From Here to Eternity did far more than the usual crude job of shoveling a bestselling novel through the censorship screen. Zinneman's epic is as moving a tale of men among men as all but the finest documentaries of World...
Beneath the Twelve-Mile Reef (20th Century-Fox) can possibly be explained as an attempt to present the Iliad in modern dress-dungarees, that is. The Greeks of the epic are the sponge fishermen of Tarpon Springs, Fla. The Trojans are the "Conchs," their Anglo-Saxon counterparts in Key West. After newsreeling through a sponge auction and a Greek Orthodox Epiphany, including the inevitable shot of Greek youths diving for a gold cross, the picture at last shows a little fight...
...Hungary's Vice Minister for Sport Gustav Sebec. the players were taken to a West End show for their first night in London. The object, said Vice Minister Sebec. was "to improve our English." He chose a revue called Pardon My French, advertised as "A Bust and Belly Epic . . . Girls with Sequins and Girls Without." ' Planned Initiative. Next day the Hungarians formally and proudly introduced their stars: shock-haired Joseph Bozsik, 28, the squad's right halfback, who is a member of the Hungarian Parliament, and Captain Ferenc Puskas. 26, the inside right, who announced briefly...
...Wainwright surrendered Corregidor. The Japanese high command had set a Feb. 1 deadline for the conquest of Luzon, and the men of Bataan had upset that timetable. They had proved that the Japanese could be stopped. And out of their defeat they had fashioned an enduring American epic...