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...dutiful husband, Duperrier cultivates the seven deadly sins in the hope of losing the halo. Matters reach a hilariously poignant pitch when Duperrier blushingly prepares for lust by reading the latest sex manuals aloud. At story's end, he is a prostitute's pimp, but the nimbus of light still rings his head. The highly orthodox moral: the unmerited gift of divine grace is not man's to will or wile away...
...have I got my cons mixed?" He had a high old time with his waitress (Sarah Marshall) in a Greenwich Village spaghetti joint, enjoyed a good cry and a good talk "about everything from her cradle to my grave." Seeing things at last as they are "without the neon nimbus," he of course went home to a forgiving wife and a plain little moral: "Life itself gets a little dusty-even rusty. It used to shine all by itself. Now we have to do a little buffing and polishing...
Occasionally, Bill gets away from his desk and out to the track. A determined horseman himself, he has a 1,500 acre stud farm, raised one horse, Nimbus, that won the Derby in 1949. Bill calls the track his "shop window" and puts on a good display. Togged out in a sharply cut lounge suit, silk shirt and floppy Panama, he joins one of the three representatives who handle his book at such big meets as Ascot, Epsom and Goodwood. While other bookies call their odds "ten to one," Bill goes all out: "I'll lay a thousand...
Gallery of Despair. But on a deeper level, Wyatt is making another pilgrimage, a modern Pilgrim's Progress, and there is a kind of nimbus about him at the end. He is enveloped in a world of spiritual bankrupts who tide themselves over their despair with drink, drugs and periodic injections of selfdelusion. In this gallery, some are mad and many are damned...
...temporary cahoots with the tycoon is Horace Nimbus, a Humanities 3 section man, played by Stephen Addiss. He succeeds in looking the part, and his monologues are often too near reality to be amusing. But in all he captures the faculty spirit, and pleasantly at that. The supporting roles are a compendum of unusual types, including Chowderhead Chumley (Stephen Bolster), who is the suede jacket tough man for the Radcliffe operation. Wheareas he tends to shout more lines than he growls, his walk is an authentic back street swagger. One of his bosses is Congressman Al Gaiter (Robert Rosenberger...