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...Clement Fowler and William Redfield made me understand for the first time how Hamlet can without any concern order Rosencrantz and Guildenstern killed. They are ingratiating, flattering, effeminate, but vicious; when Hamlet kills Polonius and leaves himself exposed, they turn on him almost snarling as they order him before the king...
Douglas-Home did not specify how much money would be sought for the two projects, but indicated that the Lord Mayor of London, Clement Harman, will lead the fund drive...
Then he covered the President's face once more with the sheet and in English offered the prayers for the Dying and for the Departed Soul: "May the most clement Virgin Mary, Mother of God, the most loving consoler of the afflicted, commend to her Son the soul of this servant, John . . . Jesus, Mary and Joseph, assist me in my last agony. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, may I sleep and rest in peace in your holy company . . . Grant, O Lord, that while we here lament the departure of Your servant, we may ever remember that we are most certainly...
...social experiments that might threaten their living standards. What they desperately want is more and better education, housing, hospitals and highways, and they fault the Conservative government for not meeting or even fully grasping their need. As a result, Britain's mood today, said former Labor Prime Minister Clement Attlee, is once more "the spirit...
...curate of St. Clement's, Schinderhook, N.Y., a beautiful young man of stupefying idiocy whom everyone calls "Sonny," is visited by the stigmata-the five wounds of Christ. He bleeds in reproach to the worldly and the clever, it is supposed. But any serious social or theological point is hopelessly compromised by Leary's relentless facetiousness, extracting what fun is available in copes, albs, chasubles, incense and the osseous relics of saints with humorous names. The pity is that Leary has evident talent and high spirits; if he could be persuaded to stay away from church...