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Kerslake, posing as a family solicitor, has a triple assignment: informing Sarah of her post-convent financial affairs, reporting on her current affaire with Farley and tracking down, on the privy instruction of the sinister Lord Bellmaster, any records that might be damaging to his ambitious lordship (he expects to be named Ambassador to Washington...
...government. He urges fellow Christians to support "free religious expression" at the same time that they carefully scrutinize new faiths and "speak out against deviant beliefs and abuses against persons." Every new group should be examined carefully, he advises, and measured by such beliefs and practices as "the unquestioned lordship of Jesus Christ, the unimpeded right of each believer to communicate with God and use of the Bible as the norm against which all doctrines and practices should be verified...
...times call for some reassessment of the interchange between private and community interest. The absolute lordship of private interests has had its day, and will have to adapt to a mixed system. That's eventually going to be true in the U.S. as well as elsewhere...
...tease with a weird combination of airiness and the pouts. Within that well-formed woman lurks the soul of a perpetual adolescent. Wilder's high moment comes during an interview with the Foreign Secretary. There is, you see, this tempting box of chocolates, and His Lordship catches Sigi with not a finger in them but both fists deeply, gloriously into the goodies...
...classic one-liners for use in very special circumstances. Perhaps only once a millennium will a nobleman state that an actor-playwright will die either from venereal disease or hanging. Samuel Foote's riposte: "My Lord, that will depend upon one of two contingencies -whether I embrace your lordship's mistress or your lordship's principles." Hardly more common is the straight line offered to James Joyce by a burbling admirer: "May I kiss the hand that wrote Ulysses?" Snapped Joyce: "No, it did a lot of other things too!" When prompted by the right question, even...