Word: brickbats
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...mused London's Daily Mail last week, "of removing him from his high and ancient office." For the past five years, outraged churchgoers on both sides of the Atlantic have thought the same thought, as the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, dean of Canterbury Cathedral, cast one irresponsible political brickbat after another into the sanctified air surrounding his pulpit. Last week the best brains of Britain's church and state were doing their best to figure out a way to fire...
...news hit the headlines with a crash like a brickbat sailing through a precinct station window. Britain's refusal to grant Irish unity was an understandably serious problem to the Irish-but should it be allowed to split the two principal allies in the cold war? Ireland's Prime Minister John Costello applauded Fogarty heartily and said a few statesmanlike words about "free peoples of the world" and England's "great wrong." Somebody fired off a bomb in Belfast (a small one which only injured one policeman). But a great many earnest U.S. citizens shredded their morning...
Bouquets & Brickbats. Not so melted were London critics. The Manchester Guardian and London Daily Telegraph were unstinting in their praise. But the Times had a brickbat in its bouquet: "The virtuosity of the execution is astonishing. But equally . . . astonishing was the lack of [interpretive] imagination . . . Brahms's First Symphony opened with an assertion of fact, not the declaration of a mystery . . . Brahms might have written the symphony for a motion picture." Even so, on second thought, the Times admitted English orchestras suffered by comparison...
...churchmen, Bishop Manning seems only a split hair's breadth this side of Rome. He campaigned to change (he might say "restore") the Church's name from Protestant Episcopal to "Catholic & Apostolic," drew many an ecclesiastical brickbat for declaring in 1930: "The conception of the ministry held by the Protestant Churches is in important respects different from that held by the Episcopal Church. The Episcopal Church holds the Catholic doctrine of the priesthood. . . . The unbroken order of the episcopate coming down to us from apostolic times is the visible, living witness of God's coming into this...
Franklin D. Roosevelt's stamp collection, appraised at $100,000, was up at auction in Manhattan. About half was sold; it brought $134,550. Curiosa: 52 "Brickbat & Bouquet" covers. Philatelist Roosevelt had happily kept envelopes addressed to "Dishonorable Franklin Deficit Roosevelt," "Plutocrat F. D. Roosevelt, Owner of 4 Estates, Member of 13 Clubs, White House," "The Sit-Down Politician," "White Father of the Pretty Bubbles." A Manhattan department store...