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...gives it a bogus air by putting long-winded rationalizations into Jefferson's mouth. Southern violence has always had a heady appeal for Warren, and villainous hotheads seem to have some lien on his sympathies. Even in All the King's Men, the Huey Long-like Willie Stark was perhaps handled with too much solicitude. Now, in Brother to Dragons, Lilburn's crime is so hedged in by sympathy that it sometimes seems as if poor George should have been proud to be dismembered by so tragically troubled a man as Lilburn. Says Author Warren...
...memorial's stark, forbidding outlines seem like nothing ever seen in U.S. history. But what the "Hall of Our History" may lack in quality, it will make up in quantity. Proclaimed the project's pressagents: "Comparable to the pyramids of Egypt in immensity and transcending other wonders-of-the-world in its intent. The 'Hall of Our History' will be . . . longer than two city blocks, wider than a football field and taller than a nine-story building." Added Gugler: "No one would look at the pyramids if they were 20 or 30 feet high . . . This shrine...
...Hollywood's top directors, Vienna-born Fred Zinnemann, a former cameraman, uses the camera with easy familiarity, and with a cool simplicity that seems astonished by nothing but shows compassion for everything. Honolulu's Schofield Barracks (where much of the picture was actually filmed) becomes a large, stark frame for some memorable scenes, such as the rite of taps for Private Maggio, with the notes of martial mourning groping their way from stone to stone and from face to shadowy face...
Truce came to Korea in a stark, deliberately underplayed ceremony...
...built himself a flat-roofed modern house, convinced a neighbor that he ought to have one too. Soon, modern houses were sprouting like dandelions in New Canaan, and Architect Noyes built a dozen of the handsomest-gay, roomy homes with lots of glass, flat, sweeping lines, and without the stark, cold look that makes many modern homes so forbidding. Prices: $15,000 to $150,000. Noyes likes to plan a whole house down to built-in furniture and faucets, does not believe in drawing a line between the architect's and the interior decorator's work...