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...Christe, audi nos. Christe, exaudi nos. Pater de coelis Deus, miserere nobis, Fili. Redemptor mundi. Deus, miserere nobis. Spiritus sanctus. Deus, miserere nobis. Spiritus sancte. Deus, miserere nobis. Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis...
...whole life is told in terms of hotels even his emotional experiences through his marriage (Effie May is totally devoid of color), and his musings are extricably bound up with ice water, phones in every room, and room service. The only variant note is struck the character of Ora Weagle, the higbrow and pseudo-poet, whose weakeness and essential meanness are so completely unredeemed by any winning ability that Mr. Lewis has all too little difficulty in convincing his readers that soul of the practical American is absolutely more worthy than that of the elitist. Such a tale was bound...
Myron and Ora Weagle, sons of a small-town hotelkeeper in Connecticut, are as different as brothers can be. Myron is a conscientious worker whereas Ora fancies himself as a poet. When they leave home, Myron is content to get an even more menial job at another hotel, but Ora drifts to Manhattan, his idea of Parnassus. Step by step, but with a fatherly eye more on priggish Myron than on piggish Ora, Author Lewis reports their slow, vicissitudinous careers. Ora finds the fleshpots of Greenwich Village agree with him. He writes one good but unsuccessful novel, the fruit...
...Titans of Literature published last year, is an enthusiastic notebook proclaiming the virtues of some of his favorites. St. Mark serves gusty Author Rascoe as a peg on which to hang his theory, already secondhand, that the real Jesus was a political zealot named Simon Bar Gi'ora, that the four Gospels were really an allegory of an unsuccessful Jewish revolt against Rome. Not Petronius Arbiter but his more rapscallion son, thinks Author Rascoe, was the author of the famed Satyricon, earliest picaresque novel. The neglected Lucian, great debunker of his day (2nd Century), he calls "the most modern...
...jury in Oklahoma City of the seven kidnappers who held Charles Frederick Urschel, Oklahoma oilman, for $200,000 ransom (TIME. Oct. 9): life sentences by Federal Judge Edgar Sullins Vaught on Harvey Bailey and Albert Bates, leaders of the kidnapping gang, and on R. L. Shannon & his wife Ora who hid Urschel on their Texas farm; a suspended sentence of ten years on the Shannons' 22-year-old son Armon; sentences of five years on Clifford Skelly and Edward Berman, Minneapolis money passers who handled part of the ransom. George ("Machine Gun") Kelly & his wife Kathryn, who had planned...