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...hurricane has just hit," wrote John Marin after a big blow in 1944. "The Seas are Glorious-Magnificent-Tremendous-God be praised that I have yet the vision to see these things." Watercolorist Marin, then almost 74, was spending his summer as usual on the Maine coast. Last week the wry, spry old master proudly showed the world that his vision is still as sharp as ever...
...left in the little western town of Yellow Sky, is sadly disillusioned when his longtime antagonist, the town marshal (Robert Preston), brings home a bride. Confronted with an unfamiliar atmosphere of respectability, Scratchy resignedly throws away his six-shooter and says farewell once & for all to his glorious gun-toting past. In James Agee's lean adaptation and in some peppery performances, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky captures much of Crane's pungent idiom, and becomes a spry blend of gun-in-holster and tongue-in-cheek...
...would have preferred a few more of these highpoints at the beginning, but it seemed to be Woodworth's plan to hold back as much as he could, saving the most glorious sounds for the final Hallclujah Chorus...
...question to Mr. Cummings: What was your glorious...generation fighting for? Was it not to create as you saw fit? Do you find this easy now, or were you just revolting for the sake of revolt?...Why the preoccupation with the good old days? ...I find it much the same world you intimated in your preface to The Enormous Room...It's no easier...
...Since Europe's bourgeoisie have "sold" their nations' pride and liberty for a mess of U.S. dollars (the Marshall Plan), Communists have a glorious opportunity to pose as patriots' raising the banner of national independence. In other words, whip up French against Germans, Germans against British, British against Americans...