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Jeffers' political views are, in fact, stark and skinny as a buzzard's craw. His new lyrics say that the U.S. was embroiled in World War II by "liars," that the U.S. dead in the war were "gypped," that the effect of U.S. entry was to "[level] the powers of Europe" and make balance, or peace, impossible; that, as a result, a third World War is coming, and that in it, or in the next, the U.S. will suffer "the brutal horror of defeat...
Among the old masterpieces from Germany now touring the U.S. (last week they were in Philadelphia) was one painting that was almost out of place, it looked so modern. It was a scene bathed in sickly torchlight, chill as a tomb, still as death-a stark and somber painting called Saint Sebastian Mourned by Saint Irene. To most gallerygoers the name under it-Georges de la Tour-meant nothing...
...Technicolor; color feeds the senses and cloys the mind, and this is not a poem of sensuousness, but of sensibility. There is something approaching, if not quite achieving, absolute depth of focus. There is no pageantry and no ornament; the great, lost creatures of the poem move within skull-stark El-sinore-like thoughts and the treacherous shadows of thoughts. (Roger Purse's sets, as nobly severe and useful as the inside of a gigantic cello, are the steadiest beauty in the film. Next best: the finely calculated movement and disposal of the speakers, against his sounding boards...
...great many of you Democrats in 1940 ran off after a certain Governor [Missouri's former Governor Lloyd C. Stark], who was trying to cut my throat and he didn't do it successfully-they are not going to succeed this time either...
...Brothers (Rank; Prestige) is one of those "stark" dramas about people very close to nature, in which strong men snarl at each other over a morsel of feminine flotsam (Patricia Roc), primitive passions are stripped to their G-strings, simple folk lap up their liquor as avidly as so many intellectuals, and the dialect is as hard to get through as a barbed-wire entanglement...