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Judge Brady is the author of Black Monday, a book titled for the day desegregation was announced. Writes he: "The loveliest and the purest of God's creatures, the nearest thing to an angelic being that treads this terrestrial ball is a well-bred, cultured Southern white woman, or...
He was also a lonely misanthrope who saw the world and himself with intolerable clarity. After one three-day binge he groaned to a friend: "To be able to tear off my flesh, to get rid of this awful, horrifying skin we have . . ." He once wrote, melodramatically but perhaps not...
Except for a few short trips, Darwin emerged from Down House only for his funeral (1882) in Westminster Abbey. The ceremony was terrific: all sat in awe as the coffin of the archfiend, "borne by Huxley, Hooker, Wallace, Lubbock, James Russell Lowell, Canon Ferrar, an Earl, two Dukes, and the...
Seldom has a film expounded an abstract entity with such heart-wringing concreteness. Trevor Howard as Scobie is pity in the flesh; and, moreover, a spectator gets the sense that he is not one aspect of the hero in one scene, and another in another, but the whole man at...
Seraphim, according to Holy Writ, are members of a high angelic order who function as messengers of the Kingdom of Heaven. In Isaiah's vision they had three sets of wings, the better to aid them in their flights through space and eternity. and they traveled with the speed...