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Douglas jumped up, clapped his hands to his head, and let out a high-pitched scream of wordless exasperation. He stumbled down the aisle as O'Mahoney, pincenez in hand, watched openmouthed. Outside, Douglas flopped down on a couch, tears spilling down his cheeks. Someone put a cold towel on his head. Half an hour later, he was back in his seat...
Unusually flexible in his cutting and camera movement, Lean has translated some of the novel's long passages (e.g., Oliver's birth and workhouse ordeal, Bill Sikes's remorse over the murder of Nancy) into virtually wordless sequences of visual storytelling at its imaginative best. He has molded most of his actors in the image of the Cruikshank drawings and handled them with the controlled flamboyance of Novelist Dickens himself. If any one threatens to outshine the others, it is Alec (The Cocktail Party) Guinness in the horrendous make-up of Fagin. To the character...
...Volumes I & II (Folkways Records; 4 sides LP). An interesting anthology, compiled mostly from old records, which traces the long journey of jazz, both hot and blue, from contemporary (i.e., U.S.) origins. It includes such rare and worthwhile items as the Negro sermon (with accompanying chanting) Dry Bones; the wordless wonders of Dark Was the Night, intoned by "spiritual" singer Blind Willie Johnson; Black Snake Moan, moaned by Blind Lemon Jefferson (Lead Belly's teacher); performances by such favorites as Bessie Smith, King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Jimmy Yancey and Louis Armstrong...
Last month the Chicago Tribune evicted The Gumps from their original home. To replace them, Publisher Bertie McCormick, who mortally hates and fears the British, last week was running a comic strip from London's Sunday Graphic. The newcomer: Artist William Timym's Caesar, the wordless adventures of a dog of dubious paternity...
Prayer is the subject of the Cloud-the wordless, upthrusting prayer of the soul seeking direct experience of God. Such a soul, says the author, must approach God with a "meek, longing love" and a "naked intent unto God alone, and not to anything that He has made." Meditation, even upon the goodness of God, is distracting; he who would follow this path must put aside all thoughts and images and concentrate his whole being on a yearning hunger for God. "The first time that you try you will find only a darkness, as though it were a Cloud...