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...Reader Rutchka's combinations are winners, but any Nim game can be won by using the 18 combinations given in TIME'S diagram. If he wishes, however, he can substitute his combinations for 6-5-3 and 6-4-3-1 in diagram and still win any game...
Sons and Lovers does not lend itself easily to a movie script, but Jack Cardiff has transformed Lawrence's novel into a superb film. The reader must follow a slow and agonizing series of conflicting passions presented in a style which is often deceptively complex. Through a skillful rearrangement of plot elements and dialogue Cardiff has condensed the novel into an hour and 45 minutes without sacrificing its subtlety and force...
...wine sipping, and feebly attempts a diary. Eventually Isherwood decides that chaos is not his cup of tea. Later, safe in England, he muses, "I didn't belong on his island. But now I know I don't belong here, either." Lugubriously he adds, "Or anywhere." The reader is tempted to interject that the author-hero belongs exactly where he is, in Hollywood-on-the-Ganges...
Alas (if that is the proper word), it is not. At any price, 1601 is not worth the money of even the most hopeful reader who never bought a magazine at Felix...
...That they left to the Portuguese. When there was something to shoot, they shot it. When there was nothing to shoot, they prayed." The author admires the doomed Mayas, the soft, proud, cruel, devious fanciers of blood sacrifices. It is a measure of his skill that he persuades the reader to admire them...