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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Treasure is the sort of picture most intelligent filmgoers have been hungry for, a hunger which has been sated only by the foreign markets of late. . . . I have never been a Bogart fan, but it is tremendously gratifying to realize that Hollywood's evil star system can sometimes be defeated and that an erstwhile painfully stylized tough-guy hero can play an unsympathetic weakling and make him an absorbing character study...
Ankle-length skirts may monopolize this side of the Atlantic, But Britain is parading a New Look of a different sort. It's called the James Mason Look at features depression, moodiness and a general lack of bright-eyed outlooks. "The Upturned Glass" is overflowing with this Look, both in the person of Mason and in its somber story, lowkey lighting and pessimistic characters. Yet aside form its dampening emotional effect, it ties all these ingredients together nicely and if you're not too fashion-conscious, the New Look will do as well...
...torchlight workers, interviewed in an informal poll, the great majority manifested feelings varying from a definite liking to a nostalgic sort of tenderness for the lonelier hours. The remaining few would rather...
...curriculum that can be found in few other major colleges in the country. Yesterday a younger organization than Harvard College, and one consequently less burdened by the last three hundred years, tactfully approached this matter. The organization was the Radcliffe Student Council, and its idea was that some sort of marriage course for Radcliffe girls should be instituted in the fall term. Yale has already stopped into the twentieth century and acknowledged the existence of sex. If Radcliffe makes the same move unilaterally, Harvard will become something of a lone puritanical ostrich, with its head buried in the past. Call...
...between these blasts he made careful and professorial defenses of the position of the United States. In the address, he kept to a general support of the Truman Doctrine. Our "imperialism" always has been pretty shoddy, he said, meaning that it has been half-hearted, naive, and oven sort of generous. He then took the occasion to compare our expansion and that of the Soviets--the Truman and Stalin Doctrines--and concluded that the men who created what he termed "the Russian ice age" must be mystified at our decadent lack of ruthlessness...