Word: mavericks
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Rigidly sectarian novels or films, particularly if they are at once both French and Catholic, are often difficult to evaluate, presenting, as they do, a narrow, dogmatic view in the guise of universality. Robert Bresson is French and Catholic (the Brattle also touts him as "a former painter, a maverick, a mystic, and a solitary"); his pre-war Diary of a Country Priest, even at its most honest, often seems wildly improbable and faintly absurd...
Died. Millard Evelyn ("Glad") Tydings, 70, whose acid tongue, during his 35 years as a Maryland state representative, U.S. Congressman and four-term Senator, made him enemies ranging from Franklin Roosevelt to Joe McCarthy; of pneumonia; on his 550-acre Oakington estate near Havre de Grace, Md. A maverick Democratic Senator who said in 1933 that "If I can't vote my sentiments, to hell with this job," Tydings voted in favor of reciprocal trade and foreign aid, against such domestic New Deal projects as AAA and NRA, which he called "alphabetical monstrosities." Though marked for purge by F.D.R...
...three big votes-in the Democratic Committee on Committees, in the full party caucus, and on the floor of the House-before they could oust Colmer. (One big question: If Colmer was to be purged, what should the House do about the other three senior Mississippians who supported the maverick electors?) In all three arenas, they seemed certain of victory-especially with Sam Rayburn applying his whiplash...
Almost as short (5 ft. 7½ in.), at least as well padded (187 Ibs.), and even more cheerful than most of the Eskimos he serves, Jesuit Llorente, 51, is a maverick candidate-a write-in whose bishop almost forced him to resign. He is also a maverick priest. For 14 years, he has served as an official marriage counselor-first appointed by the territorial court, now by the new state's Supreme Court. As state official he cannot refuse to marry anyone legally free to marry. And however invalid they may be in the eyes of his church...
Celebrity Golf (NBC, 5-5:30 p.m.). Sam Snead v. Maverick's Jim Garner...