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...Hush, mother," cried her daughter. "Someone may hear you! Besides, I think the rats are going to attack again." In tense silence the two women waited. In silence, millions of rats, heads erect, whiskers vibrant, beady eyes alert, waited for that mass impulse, unreasoned but irresistible, which would be the signal for their hordes to remove these last human obstructions to the rat world...
Common Ground is not glib in its affirmation of democratic faith. But it is too wordy and preachy. Under the sentimental pressure of its death-v.-dishonor plot, its tough, realistic tone slowly melts away. Anger rather than ardor makes Playwright Chodorov vibrant. His highly charged first act really gets under your skin. Thereafter, Common Ground strikes forcibly only upon...
...began the exhilarating Hundred Days. The banks were summarily closed, but were reopened soon and people were reassured by the vibrant, intimate, confident voice of the President, coming to them . in the first of the famed radio "Fireside Chats." Congress, caught in the electric mood, convened in special session and passed bills, hardly looking at them, written by college professors. Beer came back. The 18th Amendment was repealed...
...Lionel Barrymore, who heads a Hollywood committee backing Dewey and Bricker, was given an impressive reception when, speaking from a wheel chair, he told the crowd they were soon to hear the voice of a new, vibrant, forceful and courageous leader...
Janie (Warner), according to the studio handouts, "is today's 16-year-old; vibrant, clear-eyed, frank and astonishingly well-poised." Since adolescent poise still astonishes millions of people and adolescent vibrations still roll most adults in the aisles, it is a safe bet that Janie will clean up as tidily at cinema box offices as it did on Broadway (TIME, Sept...