Word: altars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issues. And in The Bachelor Party these insights have been skillfully translated to the screen by Director Delbert Mann, who made Marty. The scenes in the subway and the office are first-rate epigrams of locale. The reluctant groom C Philip Abbott) is a hilarious but touching study of altar nerves ("She's going to expect a lot. She's a widow"). The hardened bachelor (Jack Warden), young but not so young as he used to be, is also pathetic. "Home?" he laughs. "What do I wanna go home fuh? I awready read alia papuhs." But nobody...
...already 20 women waiting in the church auditorium (the meetings are moved each week from church to church to give each a sense of participation in the movement), and by 6 the hall is filled. As the starting time approaches, 40 Negro ministers file into their places near the altar. Finally, the electric clock on the balcony reaches 7 o'clock. King and his top assistants enter; the crowd rises and applauds wildly...
...were doing and no worry about greatness. And England is still able to produce and respond to these secondary figures. With us, however, the writer must be great or he is nothing; or believed to be great for a reason, appropriately garlanded and annointed, and then sacrificed on the altar of our outraged literary conscience; then possibly revived again, only to be interred--the American literary life makes a new chapter for The Golden Bough. And of course it is not only the readers and critics who support our savage demand for greatnes, who insist that every writer carry...
...breaking their idols. Even then they had no notion that in the city of Tenochtitlán as many as 20,000 human sacrifices had been made in one ceremony. Victims stood in queues miles long waiting their turns, as relays of beaked and painted priests presided at the altar set up at the top of the pyramid-temples to cut out living hearts with stone knives...
Foreign Service Officers, who under Acheson were made to feel that their chief was ready to come to their defense if they were attacked, have seen Dulles shy away from any contact with John Paton Davies or John Service, when these two men were placed on the sacrificial altar of anti-Communism. Men away from Washington were horrified by the State Department's cowardice in the Ladejinsky affair. Although these incidents did not necessarily demand the approach which Acheson took towards the accusations against Alger Hiss and Owen Lattimore, the lack of any outright defense of the State Department against...