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...Communists have set out to establish themselves as the chief "democratic alternative" to the Congress Party. Their professed aim is to climb to power peacefully, capturing India "seat by seat and state by state." Careful not to make direct attacks on popular Jawaharlal Nehru, the Communists portray him as the lone healthy voice in his own party, piously urge him to cleanse Congress Party ranks of anti-socialists "as Christ drove the money-changers from the temple...
After co-starring in a TV drama, two cinemoppets of yore, Jackie Coogan, 43, and Margaret O'Brien, 21, hearti'y agreed that a child actor's life can be just jolly and not a bit traumatic. Coogan's daughter Leslie Diane, 4, will soon portray Jackie as a kid in a screen biography...
...enjoyed your warm and moving review [Dec. 9] of Paths of Glory. It is gratifying to learn that Hollywood can again make films that portray war as something other than glorious and that do not have to show that under every officer's tunic there beats a heart of gold. If this movie leaves the spectator "confused," it may be because it has started him thinking of truths he would rather not face...
...best single volume of the three for the person interested in Freud and psychoanalysis. It does not contain the first volume's intimate history of Freud's early life, nor the second volume's description of Freud's personality and the early reception of his ideas; but it does portray Freud in the great mature wisdom of his old age and gives the most complete account of his thought of any of the three. Freud is depicted as a live, vital human being; an invaluable service to this psychoanalytically-oriented age. Jone's third volume is a fitting climax...
...vaudeville era. He knows every last little hop, skip and jump, and nudge, bop and scram; he is master of the soft shoe, the dead pan, the faraway smile. As Rumple, a newspaper-cartoon character in danger of extinction because his creator has lost the power to portray him, he fights for survival with tactics that happily are more Foy than...