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...kept him two years in prison to teach him his lines. Yes, said the dead, obedient voice, he had worked secretly with the Nazis during the occupation to keep the people "meek and cooperative." He had helped American officials to "prepare a new war." Ex-U.S. Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane had paid him off for his espionage with a gold fountain pen and large sums of money...
...adapted by Dennis Canaan and Christopher Fry, the film is a spirited horse opera, a kind of galloping, Hogarthian western, set to Sir Arthur Bliss's arrangement of the John Pepusch score...
THOMAS CARLYLE: LETTERS TO HIS WIFE (414 pp.)-Edited by Trudy Bliss-Harvard University...
...Lovekin." This is no moonstruck sophomore toasting epistolary marshmallows for his sweetie, but one of the finer minds of the 19th century, Thomas Carlyle, addressing his wife, Jane Welsh Carlyle. During some 40 years of turbulent married life, Carlyle gradually diluted these honeyed words with wormwood. As Editor Trudy Bliss's generous sampling of Carlyle's domestic correspondence makes plain, he used confectionery phrases to sugarcoat endless pills packed with personal neuroses...
...Bliss Carnichan read the class ode, while Class Chorister Daniel S. Neale led the seniors in singing...