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...typical and skillful Barkley rewrite of a reference to fit his particular point. The actual phrase (Psalms 84:10): "I had rather be a doorkeeper in the House of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness...
This represents the Celestial Kingdom itself, "where exalted man may dwell in the presence...
...public speeches, TV executives love to dwell on a golden future when audiences will eagerly absorb great cultural programs, and sponsors will rush to pay for them. To prove that they are at least surveying the road to this promised land, the networks every now and then hire a well-known litterateur to act as intellectual trailblazer. Three years ago, NBC joyfully announced the hiring of Pulitzer Prizewinning Dramatist Robert Sherwood. Nothing much came of it. Last week CBS hired another Pulitzer Prizewinner, Dramatist Sidney (Men in White, Detective Story) Kingsley, to be its resident cultural genius...
...Hard, Hard!" How can Harriman overhaul Stevenson for the Democratic nomination? How, if nominated, could he have a prayer against Dwight Eisenhower? For his answers, De Sapio can only draw on his rugged New York political schooling. In discussing the national situation, he likes to dwell on his experiences with Republican Tom Dewey (De Sapio insists that Dewey, not Candidate Irving Ives, was the real loser in the 1954 gubernatorial election...
...samurai has foiled the villain and won his lady love (Kuniko Ikawa), do they leap into each other's arms? Not at all. The hero rides sadly away, and the sound track sings to the heroine: "Your hawk has flown away . . ./ The bold, dark bird that dare not dwell by your side/ That fears no enemy, nor pain, nor danger/ Yet dreads the wound of the shining sword of love." Tennyson would have loved...