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...accuse Biographer de Madariaga of anti-Semitism would perhaps be easy-if it were not equally possible to call him pro-Semitic. His Columbus, opaque to biographers for over 400 years, is a preincarnation of Don Quixote, an epic figure of epic contradictions, sailing "across a sea of errors to the shore of truth." Even de Madariaga does not think his own view is the one & only. So he says, (quoting an old Spanish proverb): "Truth marries...
...Notre Dame," for it is more a tidy moral essay on the people versus the crooked nobles than it is a horror story. But the Daily Worker would then be as aesthetically wrong as it was in firing "the renegade Rushmore" for liking that "fascist-slanted, anti-negro" epic "Gone With The Wind," for "The Hunchback" is a dull film...
...Nazi epic came out of Berlin last week about the freighter Erlangen, which fled Australian waters towards Chile when war started. Short of fuel, she stopped at an uninhabited South Sea island for a month, while her crew hewed and loaded firewood, made sails out of hatch covers and tarpaulins. Alternately sailing (1,507 miles) and steaming (3,319 miles), she made Chile in five weeks (normal: two weeks), after burning most of her furniture and cabin floors...
...Gone With the Wind was a U. S. Legend. In fact, it was two of them. Legend No. i was the only great U. S. war epic-the War between the States-told from the Southern side. Legend No. 2 was the heroic and unhappy love story of two people who were strong, brutal, brash, realistic, American enough to survive Legend No. i. Like all good legends, these were told without subtlety, subjective shadings, probings or questionings, its characters were instantly recognizable types. Scarlett's "I won't think of it now, I'll think...
...Torguts-W. L. River-Stokes ($2.50). Based on the migration of the Torgut Mongols from the Volga to their Chinese homeland in 1771, this long, stiff-jointed "epic" leaves a picture of vast hordes, no individuals...