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Rome's Camaldolese sisters make ends meet by cooking and scrubbing for a local pensione, and laundering altar linens for a nearby Benedictine seminary. Sister Naz arena shares in the convent work by sewing and cutting the palms ; her materi als are delivered to her cell by a nun who taps at her door, whispers "Deo gratias," waits long enough for Sister Naz arena to hide in a recess of her cell, then sets the cloth or fronds inside the door...
...bitch render out with magnificat," cries Ebbe Borregaard, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the wittiest of them, writes of a "wiggy prophet . . . gentle as the lamb of God/made into mad cutlets." Many action poets describe "religious visions" induced by narcotics; conversely, one poet speaks of "getting a fix at the altar." Even more important than religion to most action poets is sex, but more important than either is excrement. Excrement is sacrament. They sprinkle it around like holy water, they spread it like the Gospel truth...
...them. But there was consolation amid the wreckage of her six-week trial engagement. "You have to hand it to Juliet," confided a Sinatra intimate. "For all those weeks, there was never any other girl." Besides, the career that Juliet had declined to sacrifice on the altar of Frankie was looking appreciably more promising. Booked at a Las Vegas casino before the engagement for a scant $6,750 a week, she has just signed for a second Vegas appearance at $20,000 a week...
...widely mentioned for 1964. Said Maggie Smith: "This rarity in agreement makes me wonder-and I say very carefully to you that I do not make any charge-I merely wonder if the really true role contemplated for George Romney is to be the sacrificial lamb on the Republican altar...
Proceeds from the original and the held-over performances all go to the Adams House Committee, according to P. Michael Lehmann '63, producer. Some of this money may be used to purchase green altar hangings for the chancel at the Episcopal Theological Seminary, which housed the production...