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...Charmed, or Get Out. Boiling mad, sarcastic, bitter, Editor Ingersoll warns that the British will try to "manipulate" us into World War III, if it comes and if they can. Although World War II was definitely our business, and the U.S. "did a great and truly glorious thing" in helping to fight it to the end, World War III would be "someone else's war" (an Anglo-Russian war he suggests), and none of our business. Only a few pages in Top Secret lack an argumentative tone-notably a graphic chapter of Ingersoll's own D-day experiences...
Ever since 500 B.C., when Persia's King Ahasuerus put "the riches of his glorious kingdom" on display for six months, monarchs by the hundred and merchants by the million have been convinced that nothing stimulates trade like a fair. This idea was vigorously rampant...
Elizabeth Ross acts the part of Bernadette Soubirous, passingly well; her voice goes up and down in the right places, and she assumes the proper expressions at the proper times. But the Bernadette of the play simply is not the same pitiful; yet glorious Bernadette whom Franz Werfel portrayed in his best selling novel. The supporting roles are over-acted; the speakers try to convey in each line all the emotion and conflict of the play with the result that the audience is deluged by a flood of bombast that leaves it reeling and listless...
...Institut de France's rickety stairs, to the second-floor conference chamber, hobbled some two dozen venerable French "Immortals"-scholars with "glorious pasts and no futures." There, amid marble busts of bygone Academicians, they heard an earnest harangue from "Perpetual Secretary" Georges Duhamel. In its past the Academy had spurned Molière, Daudet, Balzac, Zola, many another great nonconformist; why not, demanded Novelist Duhamel, seize this magnificent occasion to elect such latter-day greats as Louis Aragon, Roger Martin du Gard, André Gide, André Malraux, Paul Claudel...
...Amid rejoicings in the Moscow press over the virtues and glorious achievements of the Soviet Union, a foreigner on a gloomy Sunday morning cannot help contemplating with a heavy heart the imperfections and errors of the U.S. As evidence of the happy unanimity of electors in the U.S.S.R., the newspaper Pravda today points out that in the last U.S. presidential election only 48,000,000 of 60,000,000 persons qualified to vote exercised the franchise [and] 25,600,000 voted for the party in power...