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...cling to our most sacred beliefs when we are faced by adversity and even death in doing so? It is not hard to see that the authors of this play, William Berney and Howard Richardson, have stacked the deck on favor of a great big "yes" with a halo over it. But they have done the trick in a good-natured ingenuous manner, and most people will be inclined to overlook the prestidigitation...
Swinging his crippled arm, the triumphant anti-Communist leader, Walter Reuther, hooted at him: "All I can say, Harry, is that your halo is on crooked today...
...Halo & Goodbye. It was Communst Party-Liner Harry Bridges who stood his ground. Party orders were to get into any kind of ideological sheep's clothing and stay, if possible, within the folds of C.I.O. With the ax poised over the remaining ten Communist-run unions, needle-nosed Harry intoned his innocence and righteousness in a rasping cockney voice. "To get rid of us, you are going to have to throw us out," he cried. "So now we have reached the point where a trade union, because it disagrees on political matters with the national C.I.O., can be expelled...
...little trouble arranging for the church, since it was her second marriage and his fourth). Sonja was a few minutes late because of some last-minute fussing with her costume, a frilly, off-the shoulder affair of blue net and lace costing around $500-not including, of course, the halo hat of bogus egret feathers, blue lace gloves ("to take the place of sleeves"), a pearl and diamond necklace, diamond bracelet, diamond earrings, and an armful of peach-colored orchids and maidenhair fern. The bride cried some during the ceremony, but cheered up later over the champagne, when 500 close...
...reader may feel that Erik's decision comes too late to win him a halo. On every occasion except the last, he invariably chucks science for dollars when the chips are down; in a sense, he has even deserted in the face of the enemy. The deeper objection is not that Erik is such an unstable compound, but that living with lightning makes such a dull life...