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...acts, John E. Wulp's The Saintliness of Margery Kempe is a fairly amusing comedy. It relates the adventures of a fourteenth-century English housewife who, smitten with a sense of her high destiny, decides to set out upon a career of spectacular wickedness. This career, which involves the management of a brewery, comes to nothing because her beer is terrible, and so Margery alters her plans. She determines to become a saint, an ambition which is fulfilled after she performs the accredited miracle of surviving unscathed the collapse of a church. Thus far the playwright is on safe ground...
...power to enact such laws, Chafee said, comes mainly from the Fourteenth Amendment, but also from some provisions of the original Constitution...
...physiology, psychology." He is so aware of his own personality that he frequently identifies with the characters in books and movies ("That's me. That's me all over!"). But most of all, Fourteen is an age of reason and searching. "Albert Schweitzer relates how in his fourteenth year the joys of seeking for what was true and good came upon him 'like a kind of intoxication' ... As a philosopher he holds the 14-year-old youth in high regard, and pays him a compliment: 'If all of us could become what we were...
...bulletins from Washington that were front-paged across the nation one day last week held sensational legal and social implications: the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled that segregation is unconstitutional even on buses operating within single states, on the basis of the Fourteenth A.mendment...
...from number five to number three, since neither Connie Fisher nor Ben Heckscher can make the trip. In the fourth slot will be Cal Place, up from the seventh position. At fifth singles will be Ian Gianetti, followed by Pete Krogh at sixth. These last two are normally the fourteenth and fifteenth men on the ladder...