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According to medieval Jewish scholars, there are 301,655,722 angels-the bodiless spirits who stand midway in the chain of being between God and man. In A Dictionary of Angels (Free Press; $15), Poet-Anthologist Gustav Davidson, 72, has put together a wacky and wonderful compendium of angelic lore...
The singing sometimes adds to the splendor of the music. James Paul, as the ghost Peter Quint, can evoke lurking evil, great power, and blinding charisma with his smooth tenor, and gives a truly frightening performance. The governess, Jean Marshall, has an accurate, pleasant voice that is sometimes too weak...
Not long ago, Justice Tom P. Brady of the Mississippi Supreme Court was worst known as the philosopher of Mississippi's racist white Citizens' Councils and the polemical author of Black Monday, a Negro-baiting tract attacking the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 school desegregation decision. Brady...
Born to bring forth the angelic butterfly
Lyndon was no angelic student. He was once thrashed for stamping on a board to splash muddy water on girls at the outdoor fountain. He got into a fistfight when a boy broke up his marble game, found solace in his teacher's judgment that he had a right...