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...living. Encountered in his investigations are a humanely skeptical Jewish doctor, a peasant woman who was Nerone's adoring mistress, their illegitimate teen-aged son, and a nymphomaniac contessa who clashes with a bitter homosexual painter over the boy. Watching past and present collide, seeing martyrdom cheek by jowl with betrayal and murder with suicide, the monsignor-before his own death-becomes a more troubled man of God and aware shepherd of men, as absorbed in the plight of sinners as in the credentials of saints...
...tongue-in-cheek White House appellative for Harvard Historian (The Politics of Upheaval) and Presidential Aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr. is "The Great Anticipator." Fresh from his tour of Latin American countries (see THE HEMISPHERE), Schlesinger lost no time living up to the promise...
...depressed-areas bill and a plan for doubling the amount of surplus food distributed to depressed areas, Douglas saw a longer-range program of federal grants to unemployed workers, broad regional redevelopment programs, and substantial local public-works projects that might even include creation of a Youth Conservation Corps. Cheek by jowl with Douglas in Palm Beach, Kennedy told the press that aid to depressed areas should be assigned "the most important domestic priority...
...unknown and unsuggestive name that had, in these days, been thrust on him with such a wealth of commendatory gesture, was precisely what now, as he took, with his prepared list of New Year colifichets and whatever, his way to the great gaudy palace, fairly flicked his cheek with the sense of his having never before so let himself in, as he ruefully phrased it, without letting anything, by the same token...
Under Archbishop Ritter. St. Louis has gained 41 new churches and 16 new hospitals. St. Louis has also acquired a warm feeling for the quiet archbishop, who is notoriously inaccessible to newsmen. Asked by one of them-tongue in cheek -whether as cardinal he planned to hold regular press conferences. Archbishop Ritter smiled broadly. "I think I'll wait to see what Senator Kennedy's going to do," he replied. "He may give you more press conferences than you'll know what to do with...