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...four won by the Journal in the past eight years), an editor sent Penn a note. It was not to congratulate him but to remind him to attend the annual meeting of a minor movie company. A colleague intercepted the note en route and appended the phrase, "Sic transit gloria mundi." But Penn accepts the dual role. "I may have to move from a big exciting story to an inconsequential one," he says, "but I do it. It's all part of the working...
...first is a monologue in which a funky voiced blonde bitch called Gloria (Sasha von Scherler), tells about the delicious party she just gave-serving up her guests in bite-sized morsels. People exist for Gloria to hold up and put down, and she delightedly pounces on a waifish little girl somebody brought, with so much hair, she explains, "it was impossible to see its face without trespassing." The fact that the waif died of drug withdrawal the next day is merely the perfect capper for Gloria's account of the evening...
...Veritas let us add sic transit gloria mundi. W. R. Folk, Major UNITED STATES AIR FORCE Professor of Aerospace Studies...
...Transit Gloria...
...Gloria Steinem's "feminine mystique" is showing [Jan. 3]. I can see nothing negative or unflattering in Mrs. Nixon's comment that she "never had time to think about who I wanted to be or to worry about who I admire and identify with." The comment is forceful, feminine and honest, and one that is surely echoed in similar words by thousands of other hardworking, happy, family-oriented and ultimately successful American women...