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...whose parents have been liquidated, not far from a good-sized convent. Italian partisans promptly dig a tunnel under the fence, and the Italian guards look the other way while the children escape. Nuns meet the children at tunnel's end and hide them in the convent crypt until partisans can pick them...
...quality of delusion penetrates every detail of the picture, as though it were not intended to represent a reality but a nightmare. The entire film was photographed at night in what seems to be the crypt of a cathedral. The ceilings are so low that much of the time the actors have to crouch, and often they scuttle about the floor like giant, furry rats...
...vast Romanesque-Byzantine tribute to the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, patroness of U.S. Roman Catholics. The idea of building it was first broached in 1912 by Bishop Thomas J. Shahan, fourth rector of the Catholic University, who lies buried in the new shrine's south crypt. He received a blessing for the project (and $400) from Pope Pius X, and in 1920 the cornerstone was laid at the site in northeast Washington, at Fourth Street and Michigan Avenue...
Surprisingly, the poets seem to be least at ease while draped in their own literary garlands, e. e. cummings wanders through selections from his Him and Santa Claus (Caedmon) with the air of a sleepwalker groping in a murky crypt; John Masefield sibilates waveringly through his The Story of Ossian (Argo) in a reading that does nothing to relieve the poem's turgid dramatic flow. The opposite failing-a tendency to rhetoric where mere passion would do-mars Sir Ralph Richardson's swooning reading of The Poetry of Keats (Caedmon), and turns Carl Sandburg's A Lincoln...
...symbol in various combinations occurs again and again in the crypt beneath the confession altar, says Dr. Guarducci. "Everyone naturally expected to find Peter's name spelled out and was disappointed not to find it. But it is there in monogram form, with the E placed at the foot of the P to make it look like a key." The symbol she described looks something like this...