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...high Israeli officer reported husky, 16-year-old boys smoking in their damp beds while a few feet away 18-year-old soldiers, called to emergency duty, struggled to repair their tents. "They're like the D.P.s in Europe," he complained. "They don't see the point of helping themselves...
...though many more wanted to come to church, its dilapidated state kept many away. In the winter the water froze in the font and the wine in the chalice. Parents would not let their children go to catechism class because of the cold and damp. Father Simon realized that he would have to build a small chapel that could be heated in winter and have the church restored for summer services. But where would the money come from...
...deflated pompous Preacher Hugh Marlowe, and increased the pulse beat of pretty but repressed Nurse Joanne Dru. Then Webb is exposed as a fraudulent oldster and, somewhat irrationally, the other inmates turn against him. Eventually, of course, the old folks re-embrace their benefactor, and Belvedere ends in a damp rush of sentimentality that finds the nurse and preacher in each other's arms, the oldsters acting kittenish again, and Webb walking jauntily off into the sunset...
...Counter-Attractions. The Reds expected their doves to carry these themes home with them, and many would. But thousands of the young Red delegates, disillusioned with the damp tent camps provided them, were more interested in the well-stocked shops on the west side of the Branderrburger Tor. West Berlin's Mayor Ernst Reuter ordered his police to keep all Red troublemakers out, but invited the peaceful doves to "come in, look around and breathe the free air of West Berlin for a few minutes...
Lake the John Reed Club, religion, is being driven underground at Harvard. Forced to the damp sub-cellars of Eliot House, faith, like a frightened and desperate mongoose, flees the heights. Those who seek partial beauty in the secular ornaments of music are entitled to use the glorious Eliot Tower--granted a favored position by those who know not what they worship. Those who seek the more basic truth, shifty and apologetic, must beg a subterranean clothes-closet...