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...admitted that at least 20 million dog lovers might appreciate this picture, but the other moviegoers are going to be sadly disappointed with the gooey sentiment, the stark horror, and naggingly reminiscent tunes. I hope you don't get run over by the Brinks truck as it leaves the box office for the bank...
Over Catholic objections, the government started to rebuild two of the ancient churches burned out the night of June 16. The government repairs and the Catholic protests were explained by the same fact: stark and gutted, the churches were eloquent antigovernment, pro-Catholic symbols...
...aside such feelings and consider yourselves only as members of a biological species . . . The best authorities are unanimous in saying that a war with H-bombs might quite possibly put an end to the human race . . . Here then is the problem which we present to you, stark and dreadful and inescapable: Shall we put an end to the human race, or shall mankind renounce war?" Russell's answer was inevitable: the governments of the world should join together to renounce war in a sort of scientist-sponsored Kellogg-Briand pact...
Walt Disney has for so long parlayed gooey sentiment and stark horror into profitable cartoons that most moviegoers are apt to be more surprised than disappointed to discover that the combination somehow does not work this time. The songs, by Peggy Lee and Sonny Burke, are naggingly reminiscent of other tunes, but none of the cartoon creatures-except, possibly, a whistling beaver playing a bit part-have a fraction of the lovable charm of those in Disney's earlier fables...
...uninspired revue. Phoenix '55, made a dent. But far funnier was the off-Broadway Shoestring Revue; and there were such other achievements as Jean Anouilh's gay and witty Thieves' Carnival, a stylish revival of Congreve's Way of the World, a sensitive revival-in Stark Young's admirable new translation-of Chekhov's The Three Sisters. Despite much that is amateurish or pretentious, off-Broadway increasingly ministers to sound minority tastes; these days, indeed, dramatic caviar is only to be had cafeteria-style...