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People might detest it. Others might not be able to explain its peculiar fascination. But people agreed that the acting of Sarah Bernhardt had a touch of genius about it, and this genius was a special kind that we loosely call the genius of France...
...monasteries atop the Holy Mountain, where bearded, black-cowled priests withdraw from worldly pleasures in the spiritual home of the Greek Orthodox Church. Even female cats and dogs and beasts of the field are barred, "so that their mating may not furnish an outlandish spectacle to souls which detest all forms of indecency...
...their treatment is the test, and will always be the test, of the sincerity with which we cling to the Bill of Rights. If those of us who belong to the larger groups do not defend the rights of persons with whom we disagree, and whom we may actually detest, we are confessing that we hold our own rights on sufferance, or by our numbers, or by our political or other power...
...ministry, was promptly fired from his first pulpit for preaching a sermon on "Silly fools, stupid fools and damned fools" which his hearers considered much too personal. Converted to Catholicism four years later, he now writes with the full fervor of the oath he took on abandoning Protestantism to "detest and abjure every error, heresy and sect opposed to the said Holy Catholic and Apostolic Roman Church...
Last week Editor Gauvreau published his confessions*- a sulfurous document which ordinary newsmen found alternately exciting, terrifying, hilarious, gagging, slightly sanctimonious, good for their souls. Confesses Gauvreau: "I was a part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike." Better reading than Gauvreau's penitent philosophies are anecdotes of his colleagues. Samples...