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Luckily the combination is better than it sounds. Mr. Carroll's plot may he ageing but his dialogue is unusually fresh, and Liam Redman's portrayal of McCooey is something of a masterpiece in the Irish Priest line, Briefly, the canon is reputed to be a saint; he talks to birds and donkeys, and for that matter," all God's little codgers." The prediliction is bearable only because neither Redmond or the author take themselves seriously; they allow the priest to emerge as nothing more than a charming. Witty, and befuddled old cleric...
...manufacturers as philistines, beyond the pale of true artistic production. The essence of the true art is its non-objectivity, in the intimacy between man and kobu. "In a kobu," comments the president," every man sees what he wants or needs to see. With us, there is no restricting canon of 'proper' taste or judgment...
...fearing that the U.S. servicemen (the present contingent is roughly 65% non-Catholic) might prove "a wedge of Protestant proselytism," demanded legal "protections" for Catholic señoritas who might fall for the Americans. The bishops pointed out that Roman Catholicism is the state religion in Spain, and that canon law is the law of the land so far as marriage is concerned. Lieut. Colonel Raymond M. Stadta, a Reno priest serving as chief chaplain of all U.S. forces in Spain, worked out an "administrative covenant" with Spanish church and state authorities...
...rhythms quickly palled. The jazz style called modern does not protest against anything very much except dullness. At its best, it swings as vigorously as any of its predecessors, but once it starts swinging, it seems to move on to more interesting matters, such as tinkering up a little canon à la Bach or some dissonant counterpoint à la Bartok or even a thrashing crisis à la Beethoven...
Lest readers be influenced by the Canon about not praying for rain, would it not be well to encourage people to pray for anything they wanted and leave it up to God as to what prayers He wanted to answer...