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...University has distributed more than 5,000 of these reading lists, of which 3,600 went to the general public and the remainder to students. Examinations based on the reading list are given annually for students, in competition for the William H. Bliss Prize...
...that one of the big troubles with marriage is the honeymoon. She draws a terrible picture of bride & groom rushing about getting ready for the wedding, buying things, getting nervous and exhausted and then having to start on a trip. "Where is the ecstasy?" she asks gloomily. "Where the bliss?" She also thinks that no bride should ever be heard saying, "I wish you'd hurry up and make more money...
...honor. Then Husband Kenneth can win fame defending her. After a trial scene which includes the most insane re-enactment of a murder ever photographed. Helen is acquitted, Kenneth's career begun. Now publishers compete for Helen's written fictions. Only one thought clouds Kenneth's bliss: Helen has killed a man. Suppose, she hints, she hadn't really killed him: just imagine, for the sake of argument, that she was lying. . . . But Kenneth is more desolated at this possibility than by the proven homicide...
Married. Barbara Field, 19, athletic daughter of Capitalist Marshall Field III, great-granddaughter of the founder of the Chicago department store; to Anthony A. Bliss, 24, grandson of the late Cornelius N. Bliss, William McKinley's Secretary of the Interior; in Manhattan...
...retakes. A much better job of photography, the Trappist sequence of Monastery is more sombre than the St. Bernard, shows such Trappist activities as the monks washing one another's feet, burying a black-robed brother without a coffin. One shot is of a Trappist motto: The bliss of dying without regret is well worth the pain of living without contentment. Fade-out of the film is a monk's head superimposed upon a painting of Jesus Christ...