Word: charioteer
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Palmiro Togliatti, who as boss of Italy's Communists believes there is no God but Stalin, came down in a fiery oratorical chariot to rescue the Catholic Church. By the grace of Togliatti, the Italian Assembly last week put into the Republic's Constitution this clause: "The Roman Catholic apostolic religion is the only religion of the State." Approval meant that 1) the Republic would stand by the Lateran Treaty which Mussolini made with the Vatican; 2) every Italian would be taxed to support the Church; and 3) education would be Catholic...
...spirituals. . . . These people and their religious philosophies ... their music and poetry have done much to enrich my own life. This has been the source of many of my paintings, and I take this opportunity to thank you for your intelligent and dignified use of my painting Swing Low, Sweet Chariot. I was especially pleased because at times there has been much criticism of the subject matter of these paintings. Your use of this picture contradicts much of this criticism...
...angel shovin' at the chariot wheel...
...Clowns are the world's incompetents. They are bound to the wheel of incompetence or they cease to be clowns. Chaplin once, in The Gold Rush, broke the underlying significance of his role and spoiled a great film. He forgot Chariot the outcast to become a millionaire and marry the girl, like any John Gilbert or Ronald Colman. Clowns cannot possibly stoop to such romance. They are, in essence, super realists . . . tragedians in disguise. Their endings are happy for everyone but themselves...
...questions or less, the panel tries to identify some object, suggested by a listener. Samples: Ben Hur's chariot, the lost arms of the Venus de Milo, a keyhole, Harvey (Mary Chase's mythical rabbit). An offstage filter mike confidentially cuts listeners in on the secret. Producer Herb Polesie (rhymes with so-lazy) provides the humor, asking such Oscar Levantine questions as "Can I give it to my mother-in-law?" or "Can I do it to my wife?" But the program's popularity is due largely to the expert questioning of Fred, Florence and Bobby...