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...This is not the fault of the daily newspapers; they print all the news...
...fault of the weekly reviews; they adequately develop and comment on the news...
...Little fault can be found with the rest of the magazine on the grounds of maturity or competence, but there is nothing original, compelling, or satisfying. James McGovern's "Forty Cents" is an unambitious sketch whose type can be found almost any week in the New Yorker, and Bradley Phillips' "The Glass Wall" can hardly claim to be more than a somewhat symbolic atmosphere piece. Sensitivity and good writing do not save these stories from a slightness in which the Advocate makes a mistake to indulge to such an extent...
...seems that the one fault of this film is in being so far above Hollywood's normal output that it confuses most audiences. I guess Director Huston's one neglected point was that of having explanatory pamphlets issued for lobby distribution...
...good deal of the trouble connected with Washington really isn't his fault. Misguided legend-makers foisted such monstrosities on five generations of Americans as "Father, I cannot tell a lie," and "First in war, first in peace . . ." Those harmless little tidbits are setups for prep school cynics and picayunish parodyists. But unfortunately the well-meaning myth-manglers have escaped their due punishment. Poor old George Washington takes it all, and he's been taking it in varying doses for 150 years. It's a credit to him that he has borne it all so patiently, and that the date...