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...more like mine host of the Elsinore Hilton. Eileen Her-lie is a middle-aged matron with diction; it is easier to imagine her at bridge than in the "rank sweat of an enseamed bed." The saddest thing about Linda Marsh's Ophelia is how far beyond her grasp the part...
...enter into the kingdom of God." The stern-minded theologians of early Christianity, Father Dyer says, interpreted these words strictly, and consigned unbaptized babes to hell. "They are vessels of contumely and the wrath of God is upon them," wrote St. Augustine. "If no one frees them from the grasp of the devil, what wonder is it that they must suffer in flames with...
...MacArthur himself enjoyed his new job immensely. Efficient, indefatigable, imperious in everything he did, he struck outsiders as a benign but egocentric despot. MacArthur hardly bothered to listen to what others had to say, for he liked to talk himself. But when he spoke, he exhibited an uncommon grasp of a wide variety of non-military subjects, from economics to politics. Even the most skeptical of his visitors went away murmuring incredulously about "that amazing...
...been forced out in 1961 for a "pro-Communist" foreign policy. Now Goulart had favored both land reform and an independent foreign policy. Since he knew from the experience of his predecessors that one could only institute reforms from a position of total power, he undoubtedly planned to grasp that power before the army dispensed with him. He lost, however, and now the army has sought to replace him with men who it finds more palatable...
...Vanderbeek showed Ford three of his five-to-ten-minute "Visible Fill'ms"-each no doubt having some subtle message that anyone with millions to give away would instantly grasp. In A La Mode, for example, a girl carries her breasts on a tray with miscellaneous fruits. An automobile drives up hill and down dale across a pair of giant breasts. A woman's face comes off, revealing an opera .house inside her head. A bird comes out of a pore in her back...