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...college-bred among their congregations. Many ministers envision the day, and a few have already achieved it, when they will support their parish work by full-time jobs in secular occupations, emulating the worker-priests of postwar France...
...Here," sniffs one Brahmin observer, "clothes are not status symbols," a fact sustained by the regular appearance on well-bred shoulders of the old orange mink. Atlantans, on the other hand, greet the new elegance with antebellum ardor, consider it out of the question to appear anywhere but at a cocktail party in anything but formal, full-length dress...
Spain's centuries of in-and overbreeding have produced bravery as well as hemophilia-and an anti-hero like Pascual Duarte. He is a rogue in the sense of being, like the fighting bull, specially bred, running separate from the herd, amuck, savage and destructive. He is a basic black part of the Spanish conscience...
...ridiculous. Earl Montgomery as Sir Anthony is a combination of Elliott Perkins and Nikita Khrushchev, polite and civilized one minute, stamping and roaring the next. As his son, the Captain, Richard Clarke views the behavior of Sir Anthony and Mrs. Malaprop with amused tolerance and woos Lydia with well-bred ardor. And Paul Schmidt, who has also appeared on the Loeb main stage, skillfully plays an affable yet irritatingly suspicious Faulkland...
...said that children were sold just as well sell cows and hogs today. They were stood on blocks and auctioned off and of course, the highest bidder would get them. He also said that Negro women were bred just like cows...