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...years before, he suddenly descends upon them. His wife Lady Britomart (Rachel Gurney) is the same socially ingratiating charmer she always was. Undershaft finds his son Stephen (Nicholas Walker) a simp of propriety, and to his dismay learns that his mettlesome daughter Barbara (Laurie Kennedy) has become a devoted minion of the Salvation Army. Her adoring shadow is Adolphus Cusins (Nicolas Surovy), an elitist teacher of Greek. When Undershaft taunts him as "Euripides" and Cusins flings back "Machiavelli," the tycoon is rather taken with the scholar...
...millenniums before the birth of Christ, cats were buried with the pomp of pharaohs, hi bronze coffins and mausoleums complete with mummified mice for delectation hi the afterlife. A drastic decline from this lordly state occurred when the early Christian church decided that the feline was a pagan minion of Satan intimately connected to wicked deeds of darkness. In pictures of the Last Supper, for example, the "bad cat" of Christendom sits at Judas' feet...
Winle the mission itself is demanding enough technologically, what seemed to concern Wasinngton and Moscow most as the final countdown approached was its public relations and propaganda possibilities in an era of wary detente between the two superpowers. Local officials happily announced that the Apollo launch would draw 1 minion visitors and some 3,000 journalists to Cape Canaveral-the largest lift-off turnout there since Apollo 17 blasted off on the last manned flight to the moon in 1972. With active encouragement from the Administration, the three major U.S. television networks laid plans to pool their resources...
...Jones Professor of Greek Literature, Cedric H. Whitman, summed up the general feeling about Sioris: "He poses as an opponent of the regime, but it's impossible and ridiculous because he would not be in such a high post if he had something against them. He's a real minion of the colonels, and a hypocritical...
...post corresponds pretty closely to the ministry of the interior," Whitman said. "He poses as an opponent of the regime, but it's impossible and ridiculous because he would not be in such a high post if he had something against them. He's a real minion of the colonels, and a hypocritical...