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...Rescue. In scattered twos and threes the airmen painfully worked their way down to the beach. The wood was too wet for fires. Continuing bad weather hampered search craft. But in the afternoon of the second day, the Canadian fishing ship Cape Perry sighted two of the men signaling from the shore, and in a short time it had picked up ten. Late the same day, a detail from the Canadian destroyer Cayuga reached Trippodi, who was by now delirious, suffering from exhaustion, shock and frostbitten feet. In all, twelve were rescued...
...Europe is that it has bred a generation of children without a childhood. The normally irresponsible years of infancy and adolescence must be replaced by a competition for survival; the process of maturity becomes the development of an emotional callousness. Of all the post-war movies ("Shoe Shine," "The Search," "The Bicycle Thief") that have described these children, "Germany Year Zero" presents the most drastic outcome--the story of a twelve-year-old boy who was so embittered by life during his few years that he committed suicide...
...bicycle. To get the bicycle, his wife has to sell the family's sheets. During the first day on his new job the bicycle is stolen. The rest of the film follows the worker and his young son as they tramp through the streets of Rome in a futile search...
...listener the concerto seemed "somewhat like a surrealistic painting-with familiar and beautiful forms in unfamiliar relationships and in a dreamlike atmosphere." Another subtitled it "The id in search of itself." One Boston critic found it "crabbed and harshly dissonant"; another "wanting likability" and "without heart." But beaming Conductor Munch thought that "with Bartok, Berg and Bloch, it is one of the most important concerti." Bill Schuman himself, remembering the "practically silence" he once got in Boston, was mighty pleased with 2½ minutes of applause...
...Barnett Newman, 45, was a man of few lines-one, or at the most two, to a picture. The lines ran straight up & down, bisecting huge canvases that were painted one bright color apiece. "My search," said Newman with massive dignity, "is for a picture that is simple and self-evident. What is there is there." His ultimate purpose, Newman added, was "to make the unknowable manifest." This was not to be confused with the unknown, which held no interest...