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Last week a militant group of U.S. clergymen and laymen met in Washington and set out to raise $1,000,000 "to resist the declared purposes of the Roman Catholic Church further to breach the wall of separation between church and state...
Where a more seasoned biographer would have stood aside as much as possible and let his eloquent hero speak for himself, Chronicler Carr has not been able to resist taking nearly all the words out of Doyle's mouth and saying them in his own less effective way. It is a tribute to Doyle that not even this defect is enough to prevent him from towering out of the pages as what he was-a many-sided, fascinating man whose stunning vitality and forcefulness mark him as one of the most striking as well as one of the last...
While the producers of Whiplash seem chiefly interested in illustrating the varied arts of mayhem, they were not able to resist dragging in a little Moral Problem. Clark, the human punching bag, is getting the treatment because he wants to rescue Alexis from her sinister mate (Zachary Scott) and retire from bad fights to paint bad pictures. The catch is that the wicked husband is paralyzed from the waist down, and thinks up his villainies in a wheelchair. No hero can sock a man in a wheelchair; no heroine can divorce him. How to get rid of him? Whiplash solves...
Frigid Ruin. A deal along those lines, instead of a Communist-dominated government for all China, might be shaping up. In either case, the Communist boss, Mao Tse-tung, would probably demand that Chiang Kai-shek leave office. There seemed to be little disposition in China to resist such a demand...
When he actually tries out the murder plot he has imagined so smoothly, he bungles it hilariously. Having spent too long arriving at his gag, Sturges cannot resist overworking it. Harrison is so funny stepping through a cane-bottomed chair that he is allowed to do the whole routine a second time...