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...Antonio, Eisenhower had serious words on Korea: "It won't bring comfort to any American house to fix Korea and have as bad or worse trouble break out in another place . . . Korea is part of the whole global problem." He concluded with a solemn call to "every Godfearing, loyal American of every faith or party to offer tonight a prayer for peace in Korea. In my heart, as in yours, it cannot come too soon...
Lewis' only comment on the decision was to say later: "This is a solemn day." And it was, for this week 300,000 of the nation's 375,000 soft coal miners walked out in protest against the WSB's decision. Having lost two months' steel production, the nation was now faced with the prospect of another crippling shutdown of defense industry (though the prospect was not immediate; the amount of coal above ground is larger than usual). The coal strike, even more clearly than the steel strike, was the result of unsuccessful Government interference...
Worst of all, by using the formal rhythms of artificial comedy to set forth solemn cliches, The Sacred Flame comes off stilted prose rather than human talk, while the production deals in statuary rather than people. Maugham is a naturally neat writer; but the neatness, here, is that of an inferior toupee...
...years past, the Deans have reacted to parietal rule appeals like a war-horse to the clarion's blare. Believing it their solemn duty to protect undergraduate morality (and presumably the revered name of Harvard as well), they have rejected all pleas for parietal leniency with remarkable persistence...
Flowers of St. Francis (Angelo-Rizzoli; Joseph Burstyn) weaves some episodes from the life of Francis of Assisi into a rich cinematic garland. As adapted from the 14th century Fioretti di Francesco d'Assisi by Director & Co-Author Roberto Rossellini, the film is no solemn picture of a dead and embalmed saint, but a warmly human portrait of a humble man who rejected the world for a life of poverty and piety...