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After his election, Pius XII received the first "obedience" of the College of Cardinals, each kissing his red leather slipper. During the ceremony, he was heard to murmur: "Miserere mei, Deus [Pity me, Lord...
...brassy mistress, played by Hugh Fortmiller, Feek is ulcered into finding a new advertising glmmick to sell ball-bearings. With the help of vice-presidents Arbuthuot, Moriarity, and Carmichel (Ed Bursk, Stove Bolster, Tim Nichols), and a slogan-grinder-turned-playwright named Nadworney (William Allison), Feek finally produces a deus-exmachina legitimate play, plugging the sponsor's product...
...being taught to say: "Cut-im grass belong head belong me" ("I want a haircut"), and the 23rd Psalm was still going native in a wide variety of ways: e.g., Australia's "Big Name watchem sheepysheep. Watchum blackfella. No more belly cry fella hob . . ."; New Guinea's "Deus iwas gut long mi, im igifim mi ol samtig...
British Captain Clinton, an army officer among the camp's airmen, had been a university student before the war. The scrap of paper blown to freedom by the wind made him think of the deus ex machina that so often solved Greek tragedies. His thoughts turned to the fall of Troy. Suddenly he "found himself running ... an idea racing through his mind . . . Peter-he must find Peter...
...means, and ought-we-to-do-its that would scarcely tax the reflective powers of a Cambridge High junior. The point--that, like Joan, we may have to make small, bitter concessions in serving the greater concept--becomes clear to the heroine through a puzzling scene in which the deus ex machina descends with a thud to the stage...