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...claims he is a Catholic is accorded special attention and authority when discussing Communism." Therefore he felt bound to protest "not only as a Catholic but as an American when I feel that the church ... is being used by an individual as a shield and a cloak...
...acting in the film is of the cloak-twirling variety that has been the plague of grand opera for many, many years. All the principals are completely versed in this type of playing. Apparently Gallone had no choice but to fall back on sword-shaking, considering the basic absurdity of the plot...
...ring as big as a crow's egg, and a jade-and-gold bracelet so heavy that she had to take it off to type her stories. Her journalistic style was equally flamboyant. She mixed metaphors as vigorously as a housewife mixing cake batter: "Even more than the cloak-and-dagger, who-done-it crime of 'grand passion,' the motives here involved strike, straight as the crow flies, into the innards, the vital organs and the muscles known as the human heart." Fannie interviewed fruit vendors and drugstore cowboys, lined up at 6 a.m. with spectators waiting...
...city's first Unitarian Church, as well as Washington University. The Rev. William Greenleaf Eliot could be a stern shepherd; one of his more memorable sermons was entitled: "Suffering Considered as Discipline." But young Tom Eliot's Irish Catholic nurse considered Unitarianism too thin a spiritual cloak against the cold winds of the world; she liked to take him along to her own church, a block away from the Eliots' red brick house on Locust Street...
Died. Rafael Sabatini, 75, author of more than 40 jack-booted cloak-and-rapier romances (Scaramouche, The Sea Hawk, Captain Blood), historian and playwright; in Adelboden, Switzerland. Born in Italy and raised as a polyglot cosmopolite, Sabatini made England his home and English ("All the best stories are written in English") his language...