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Despite these obstacles, Journey's End as a talking picture is a sensitive, faithful and brilliant photograph of a great War play. The story is a pattern loosely and skillfully woven around the lives and characters of certain British officers in a front line sector-their amusements, memories, meals, relations to each other-all unified by the abstract presence of a power bent on destroying them, and which does in the end destroy them. These soldiers are heroic, but with a kind of heroism never before depicted on the screen-a makeshift heroism, concocted in despair as the best...
...true that youth usually demands the trial and, error method. Nevertheless this psychological pattern might have been understood and dealt with in a more intelligent fashion by the Amherst faculty. A burned child may acquire a beneficial fear of the fire; but a dead one is of no use to anybody...
...works hard also with the knowledge that he will be called upon to express himself on the subject in examination, but has no doubt of his ability to do so because he feels that he understands its significance and the structure and principal details of the pattern...
...first to go. An arrow finished him. Then little Johnny Sprigg was shot in the top of his wig and Humpty Dumpty tumbled off a wall. It was Philo Vance, the amateur detective of the S. S. Van Dine mystery stories, who found the solution of the Mother Goose pattern in the series of horrible murders involving first Mr. Cochrane Robin in an archery butt, then a gentleman named Sperling, which is sparrow in German, then Mr. Sprigg, and finally a hunchback who resembled Humpty principally in the manner of his end. Footsteps, chess, English voices, higher mathematics...
...steady and continuous unfolding of a local institutional pattern contains within it the historic facts from which spring many of those generalizations which from the fibre of political thought. There is a new understanding that comes with a long perspective; there is a judicious tolerance towards contemporary institutions that grows from a grasp of past usefulness; and there is an impetus to orderly progress in the description and analysis of those present-day adjustments through which perplexed communities aim to regulate the rapid and often extreme transitions that art a phenomenon of modern life. Broadly, the application of these observations...